One of the bonuses of gardening at Highgate Cemeteries is that the lovely volunteer lady, Kim, arranges a lot of excellent exchange visits for us volunteers to go to other interesting houses, gardens and cemeteries around London. And a couple of weeks ago we were posted off to Strawberry Hill House, Horace Walpole’s 18th century …
volunteering with Highgate cemeteries
Random update…..
I realise, somewhat guiltily, that Salon Music has definitely taken precedence over Hampstead Heath recently and although I have put in a good few stints both on the heath itself and in the cemeteries, I have totally failed to record anything! So here is a somewhat random update – finishing with a short walk down …
Digging up the heath – and the cemeteries!
One of my ambitions when I moved up to Highgate was to sign myself up to work on the heath with the volunteer gardeners and bramble hackers/sapling puller-outers, Heath Hands. But no sooner had I moved in than lockdown happened and all volunteer recruitment came to a grinding halt. So I had to make do …