It is looking slightly brighter this morning – although it feels no warmer – but yesterday was grim…. Lowering grey clouds and drizzle over the distant city, rain puddles under the seat, no one but a crow to be seen. Down at the Men’s swimming pond it wasn’t much better. But, check out those dots …
Wild flowers and the last of the fluff balls
As I stomp across the heath I note and record wild flowers when I see them – and now and then I offer them up to you! So here are a few of the most recent – and no, I don’t know what these are but the bees like them! And what are these pink …
More on climbing trees – and small fluffy creatures…
On my way back across the heath the other day I passed the climbing tree – as I often do. It is sort of the Picadilly Circus of our part of the heath – hard to go anywhere without passing it. It was early evening and it was silhouetted rather spectacularly against the sky. Down …
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Woodberry Wetlands – and more ducks…..
On Sunday I made an exciting expedition Woodberry Wetlands, one of two reservoirs to be found just north east of Finsbury Park and now a wildlife park managed by the London Wildlife Trust. Hampstead Heath is wonderful, but so nice to venture further afield just occasionally. The area was originally field and meadow land, running …
Breakfast?……
When I moved to Hampstead Lane one of excitements was the thought that, should I feel so inclined, I could walk 8 minutes down the road to the lovely Kenwood café for breakfast. But I arrived in February to discover that the café was closed for refurbishment and, about the time that it was due …
Save the oaks in Queen’s Wood threatened by an insurance claim
These are not our Hampstead Heath trees but they are just over the brow of the hill in Queen’s Wood. But four of the Queen’s Wood mature oaks are threatened with destruction because an insurance company doesn’t want to pay the costs of underpinning the property which they say is threatened by the trees. There …
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