This was intended to be a post about an extremely enjoyable morning hacking holly earlier this week (see below) – but the winter sun on the heath as I walked back from South End Green this afternoon was so lovely that I could not resist including it. And how irrestibile were those mandarin ducks on …
Hampstead Mixed Bathing Pond
Down South….
Barbara lives on the south side of Hampstead Heath so this picture she took for us yesterday is of Hampstead Pond No. 1, the first pond you meet when you walk onto the heath from South End Green. To the right of the pond is a causeway which separates Pond No 1 from the Mixed …