The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • About The Hazel Tree
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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

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

    A timeless moment

    April 6, 2014 /

    How can I introduce T S Eliot? I can't, is the answer. But I love this reflection on time and history...

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    'Tree is a fractalscape' by Sudeep Adhikari

    August 12, 2016

    ‘November’ by John Clare

    November 3, 2015

    An Adlestrop moment

    June 29, 2013
  • Reviews

    Book review: ‘In Search of the Dark Ages’ by Michael Wood

    February 2, 2014 /

    I've just finished 'In Search of the Dark Ages' by Michael Wood, and I can totally recommend it as a surprising and absorbing read.

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    Book review: ‘The New Sylva’

    May 7, 2014

    Book review: ‘Scotland’s Merlin’ by Tim Clarkson

    July 14, 2016

    Book review: ‘The First Blast of the Trumpet’ by Marie Macpherson

    July 24, 2015
  • History,  Scottish castles

    The value of Stirling

    December 8, 2013 /

    Forbidding and silent, Stirling Castle stands on a natural clifftop overlooking the River Forth. Battles have raged below its ramparts, and murders have taken place within its walls. Let's go inside and have a look!

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    Prehistoric rock art at Achnabreck

    April 5, 2016

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014

    The Butter Bridge, Glen Kinglas

    March 21, 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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