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 …
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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 …
Sandy Heath
These days Sandy Heath seems a total misnomer for the precipitous, shadowy woodland, scattered with giant trees, that runs from Spaniards Road down to the Heath Extension. But this is the ridge of Bagshot Sands which runs east to west across the heath. ‘The Bagshot Sands’, says Helen Lawrence in How Hampstead Heath Was Saved, …