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
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Trees of winter

    January 2, 2016 /

    On a New Year's Day walk, the sound of the wind in the trees reminded me of these words by Thomas Hardy

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    Devil’s-bit scabious

    August 24, 2016

    A December walk through Ballachuan hazel wood

    December 7, 2020

    The ancient oak woods of Taynish

    July 2, 2015
  • Poetry

    A Christmas poem

    December 19, 2014 /

    One of my all-time favourites, which captures the true spirit of Christmas...

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    A timeless moment

    April 6, 2014

    A poem for Burns Night

    January 25, 2014

    An Adlestrop moment

    June 29, 2013
  • Poetry

    Midwinter hope

    December 4, 2013 /

    It’s been a while (six months, in fact!) since I posted my tribute to Edward Thomas’ Adlestrop, and the season has now rolled around from midsummer to midwinter. I can’t resist the opportunity to publish what is possibly my favourite poem of all time: ‘The Darkling Thrush’ by Thomas Hardy. It paints a vivid picture of a landscape in the icy grip of winter; death and desolation reign, but the gloom is pierced by an unexpected ray of hope. This is something that speaks to all of us as we struggle bleary-eyed on cold dark mornings, and then, a few meagre hours later, watch helplessly as the sun collapses below…

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    Midsummer’s Eve

    June 20, 2015

    ‘November’ by John Clare

    November 3, 2015

    A Christmas poem

    December 19, 2014

"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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