The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

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
  • History

    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014 /

    A spooky tour of St Andrews, where it seems that every street and every building has its own spectral inhabitant. Would you wander around here after dark? I'm not sure I would!

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    Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

    February 11, 2018

    Looking for the yew of Easragan

    May 20, 2019

    Innerpeffray: Scotland's oldest free lending library

    August 14, 2016
  • History

    St Mary’s College in St Andrews

    September 23, 2014 /

    On a visit to St Andrews, just by chance, we stepped through an archway and discovered the ancient quadrangle of St Mary's College. What a lovely place, and what a long history!

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    The dark mill of Coilebar

    August 25, 2018

    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015

    Torphichen Preceptory – stone-cold but compelling

    April 15, 2015
  • Photography

    Museum garden in St Andrews

    September 2, 2014 /

    A lovely old doorway in St Andrews, enhanced by a stunning display of late summer flowers

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    Windows: Edinburgh Castle

    January 27, 2017

    A tree of fire

    October 5, 2013

    Jewels of the sea

    July 20, 2016
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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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