It's been a loooooooooooooong time since I last wrote. I’m now mum to two beautiful, delightful and extremely cheeky daughters: Gwendolyn (aged three) and Josephine (aged one) and right now, while on lockdown in our terrace house in Tottenham, London, with their daddy, and our two cats, I’ve decided it’s finally time to dust down …
My National Tree Week began with an oak circle and ended with a cherry avenue - two kinds of man-made treescape, both intended to change and improve views. (It also involved a spot of 'tree dressing' but I'll tell you more about that later.) The cherry avenue grows amongst an oasis of trees, both mature …
I began my journey of discovery through trees during a winter tree walk on New Year’s Day, but my love of trees had been slowly growing in the background for much longer than that. It’s hard to say exactly what brought it to the surface at that particular moment. Maybe it was because I’d inherited …
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 …
Little Wild Tales 