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
  • Photography

    Looking again at lichen

    September 3, 2013 /

    Some of my favourite photos, all taken in one place: Eileach an Naoimh, in the Garvellachs.

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    St John’s Church, Ballachulish

    December 8, 2014

    A tree of fire

    October 5, 2013

    Raindrops on birch twigs

    April 15, 2016
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013 /

    Set into a grassy bank on Eileach an Naoimh, the 'Isle of the Saints', is this small but intriguing underground chamber. Just what was it used for?

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    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015

    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012

    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012 /

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs sounds like an Irish folk group… and in a way, that's what they were! In the 6th century St Brendan and a band of adventurers set sail in search of paradise.

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    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015

    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012

    "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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