The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • Poetry

    ‘The Sisters – Olive trees of Noah’: poem by Sudeep Adhikari

    May 5, 2016 /

    Just recently I was contacted by a poet named Sudeep Adhikari, who wondered if I would like to publish a couple of his poems on The Hazel Tree.  Sudeep lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. The first poem he has offered me was inspired by a grove of 16 ancient olive trees in Bechealeh, Lebanon, known as ‘the Sisters’ or ‘Olive Trees of Noah’.  I had never even heard of these trees before, and was fascinated to see some photographs of them.  Sudeep’s words seem to offer a glimpse of their divine essence, evoking their mystery and their almost unfathomable age. The Sisters – Olive Trees of Noah?? All I have is…

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  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015 /

    The pink sandstone ruins of Dryburgh Abbey stand in their own little pool of time, listening for the gentle chant of prayers

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    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019

    St Conan’s Kirk

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  • Wildlife & Nature

    The Birnam Oak: in the presence of greatness

    May 11, 2015 /

    Did this majestic tree - or the forest in which it stood - inspire Shakespeare with an idea for 'Macbeth'?

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    Ivy-leaved toadflax

    June 9, 2015

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    August 15, 2015
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    "To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

    Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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