Thirty one degrees today – so I thought we needed water…. (If you want to see the video you will need to click onto the blog as the email notification does not include the video.) This is the water fountain at the bottom of ‘my’ meadow – and very welcome it is – although …
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Bark – and the odd tree
It is quite an amazing many branched tree, but does that bark not look a bird’s rough feathers? And how many great insect ‘des res.s’ is this trunk offering? Roots anyone? And I know that it is actually in the middle of Kenwood woods but his looks to me like a bit of rainforest. Well, …
Gone fishin’
It was grey and miserable on Friday when I walked round the boating pond, but that was not putting off those keen fishermen who, finally released from lock down a few weeks ago, have scarcely been able to get near the pond for the hordes of un-socially distanced families and people ‘working from home’. So …
Peter Pan and Prince Albert
The Serpentine Bridge divides Queen Caroline’s lake and her park into Hyde Park to the east (in which the barracks are situated) and Kensington Gardens to the west, ending in Kensington Palace with its Orangerie and its lovely sunken garden. To the north the lake ends in the Italian Gardens, created in the 1860s by …
The Serpentine
Leaving yesterday’s swans behind I headed into the tunnel under the lovely sandstone bridge over the Serpentine, emerging on the other side beside the most enormous willow tree many of whose branches have dropped down in the lake. Just above, on the corner of the bridge is the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in the old ‘Magazine’, …
More trees – and swans
Do you remember those little cygnets of only a few weeks ago? Just look how they have grown. (With thanks to one of our readers for the picture.) I wonder if that is the widowed swan lady with her new partner… Meanwhile, a few more trees for you but this time not Mr Drori’s trees, …