The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Dunvegan Castle

    August 6, 2013 /

    This fortress on Skye's north-west coast has stood guard over MacLeod lands for nearly 750 years; and it contains some spellbinding treasures!

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    From Arichonan to Kilmory Oib

    August 20, 2018

    Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017

    The Devil’s Arrows: shafts of darkness

    August 12, 2015
  • Winchester’s Round Table: inspired by a legend

    July 2, 2013 /

    The Great Hall at Winchester Castle houses a tribute to King Arthur, Britain's 'once and future king'. Prepare to be amazed...

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    Torphichen Preceptory – stone-cold but compelling

    April 15, 2015

    Dunaverty and St Columba’s Footprints

    November 29, 2020

    Inverlochy Castle

    October 24, 2020
  • An Adlestrop moment

    June 29, 2013 /

    I’m taking a bit of a diversion from my usual Hazel Tree topics because it’s late June. I think I’d better explain. There are lots of poems that I admire, and while I was remembering some of them recently it occurred to me that most of them are connected with the seasons. And every summer, around about now, the words of Edward Thomas’s ‘Adlestrop’ are going round in my head, and I’m looking for my Adlestrop moment.   Not every summer has one of these, but when it happens you just have to stop and enjoy it.  It doesn’t have to be late June, but it’s even better if it…

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    Midsummer’s Eve

    June 20, 2015

    Midwinter hope

    December 4, 2013

    A poem for Easter

    April 2, 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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