May 7th, 2008
I need to apologise straight away to our North American readers. I am, I suppose, a Norfolk Broad - born and bred a Norfolk girl.
But what we call ‘the Broads‘ you would call lakes, rivers, reedbeds. These expanses of water were made by medieval monks digging out peat in the low lying landscape, to use […]
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April 20th, 2008
It’s just getting to that time of year when it’s nice enough to want to take a good long walk. And Hatfield Forest is a great place for walking.
It’s a strange place. For a start, it’s not all what we’d call ‘forest’ today; there are vast areas of open land as well. There are coppices, […]
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March 21st, 2008
Spring is definitely here if you speak the language of flowers. The snowdrops have come and gone, the crocuses have blazed out, daffodils everywhere are celebrating the Welsh rugby team’s success, and the bluebells are a month early.
Take a trip to Richmond Park and you can find one of the most beautiful bluebell walks, in […]
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March 3rd, 2008
This is the last month of the Henry Moore exhibition at Kew Gardens. If you have even the remotest interest in modern art, you should make the effort to get out there.
Henry Moore was an artist who was profoundly influenced by landscapes. His sculptures often evoke the forms of hills and valleys, of naturally eroded […]
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February 21st, 2008
If you want to see a typical piece of Olde England, you don’t have to go far from London to soak yourself in half timber houses and little lanes. Just take a train twenty minutes from King’s Cross to St Albans, ignore the suburban commuter belt, and make your way to the historic centre of […]
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