The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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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

    ‘All nature has a feeling’ by John Clare

    October 30, 2016 /

    These lovely words by John Clare remind us of the true essence of autumn

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    Midwinter hope

    December 4, 2013

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

    May 5, 2016

    Early summer gold

    June 12, 2015
  • Poetry

    ‘November’ by John Clare

    November 3, 2015 /

    A longer poem than usual, but I love it.   It’s worth reading to the end, if you have the time! The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, tis with a face Beamless and pale and round, as if the moon, When done the journey of her nightly race, Had found him sleeping, and supplied his place. For days the shepherds in the fields may be, Nor mark a patch of sky – blindfold they trace, The plains, that seem without a bush or tree, Whistling aloud by guess, to flocks they cannot see. The timid hare seems half its fears to lose,…

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    A poem for Easter

    April 2, 2015

    'Tree is a fractalscape' by Sudeep Adhikari

    August 12, 2016

    Midwinter hope

    December 4, 2013

"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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