I seem to have become rather obsessed by bees – or is it just that we are in high bee season? Anyhow, here is one at work on some rather fine Queen Anne’s lace down by the Boating pond – with some rather noisy accompaniment. Isn’t the curled up green bud at the end of …
Hampstead Lane update
An April and May with lots of sun and no rain – and a June with lots of rain and no sun – has meant that my lawn has scarcely grown at all. Mind you, to call it a lawn somewhat flatters it as a smooth green sward it definitely is not. However, I did …
Kitchen garden revisited
The sun was not exactly splitting the stones yesterday but it was a bit brighter so I thought I would pop into the Kenwood Kitchen Garden to see if anything had changed from my last visit some weeks ago. Well, for one, in the long, wide hedge that divides the upper lawn from the lower …
Bring back the sun……
A dreary June has now turned into a soggy and grey July. So to remind us of what a hot sunny day was like, here is a brief video I took in search of running water round Kenwood lake when we had our last two day heatwave. (If you want to see the videos you …
Dragons and brown lace
Is this little boy taking his life in his hands? That looks very much to me like a bony dragon with a curling tail – and could that be a crocodile creeping along his back? And down in Millfield Lane, what is this that looks like coarse brown lace hanging down from the tree branches? …
Victim of the gales
A victim of the gale force winds that have been sweeping across the heath over the last few days, down by the boating pond. As you can see, the leaves have not even started to shrivel. Standing firm against mere gales however were these two veteran campaigners. How many people do you think it would …