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some memories of trees

On August 30, 2016September 23, 2020 By charlotte rixonIn nature & wildlife1 Comment

Before I was born my family nearly moved house but my big sister rejected the new house my parents had chosen because it did not have any 'good climbing trees in the garden'. Consequently, I grew up in a house with a garden that had two huge wild cherry trees growing side by side at the end …

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walking the line (and the woods)

On March 31, 2016September 23, 2020 By charlotte rixonIn nature & wildlife6 Comments

  I love the way that London’s green and wild corners are revealing themselves to me little by little. One day, as I was jogging around Finsbury Park, I noticed a steady stream of walkers and cyclists seeping in and out of a narrow passageway above a railway bridge. Curious, I crossed over the bridge …

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conservation in the cemetery

On February 27, 2016September 23, 2020 By charlotte rixonIn nature & wildlife3 Comments

So I spent Valentine’s Day in a graveyard cutting down trees... First I attacked a patch of ash and sycamore saplings with loppers. I looked on as a holm oak was toppled and then I helped cut up the branches and stash them out of sight behind a large gravestone. Later, I sawed down a …

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