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 …
Tag: The Woodland Trust
walking the line (and the woods)
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 …