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...Later that day we arrive at Mebar Tsho, the sacred Burning Lake, where pilgrims are crouching in an uneven line atop a rocky vantage point above the hazel-coloured water....
...For a while I lived by the woods in south-east London and would make wonky wreaths from foraged foliage, surreptitiously whipping out the secateurs when no dog-walkers were in sight....
...She shows me new signage for a permissive path — a route she is offering to walkers to help them avoid the adjacent road....
...Hazel Blears, former UK minister and chair of SIB, says: “If local councils can empower community activists, then by coming together and bringing in private capital, they can make things happen.”...
...The door, when open, emits the vying fragrances of dried rosemary, eyebright, hyssop, sage, lavender and witch hazel....
...“I have enough dish soap to last me a year,” she declares mischievously, her bright hazel eyes lighting up her face....
...The route takes you past our old cottage, a clump of mare’s tail that has been there ever since I can remember and into an ancient, deep-cut track shaded by a very old stand of hazel....
..., by Hazel O’Connor; “Love and Affection”, by Joan Armatrading; “Mensch”, by Herbert Grönemeyer; “Je T’aime, Moi Non Plus”, by Serge Gainsbourg — and, above all, Karl Jenkins’ “Benedictus”....
...The lecturer Adam Walker (1730-1821) wrote that the “beautiful rock is like the age-tinted wall of a prodigious castle”. Wordsworth visited, as did JMW Turner, who painted at Gordale Scar....
...The flavours of orange, cream, hazels, almonds and raisins meld with quiet fire and dark chocolate (19/20)....
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