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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    Glen More and the headless horseman

    May 16, 2015

    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021

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

    February 11, 2018
  • 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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    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

    A walk to Rí Cruin Cairn

    September 28, 2019

    Kintraw’s lonely watcher

    June 19, 2014
  • 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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    ‘Song of the trees’

    December 14, 2017

    A poem for Burns Night

    January 25, 2014

    ‘All nature has a feeling’ by John Clare

    October 30, 2016
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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