Hints and tips:
...A retail park can be a better place to see these birds than the “heaths and hedgerows” tipped in field guides....
...We meandered across gorse-covered heaths and through dappled birch woods, over wild streams and rivers where otters play, past gorgeous unspoilt countryside populated only by rabbits, sheep and deer....
...The good ones, fluffy-skinned and lumpen, are hard to buy; the tree on Hampstead Heath I’d had my eye on was stripped one dark weekend. Besides, my Hungarian grandmother loved them....
...Its day-to-day staff is an earnest and elite band of 16 Ivy League-educated lawyers who labour deep inside the US Treasury, ostensibly to protect America’s economic future....
...As Samuel Johnson wrote, Hampstead Heath will lift the heart of even the weariest. What’s the best pub in London?...
...Also, daddy can donate enough to have a residential wing named after the family, and future generations can all have an Ivy League degree....
...Villa Ivy, Brac Island, Croatia, €2.8m Where Near the village of Sumartin on Brac, an island in the coastal region of Dalmatia, southern Croatia....
...Nonetheless, in the first quadrat alone, Donaldson and her colleagues identify bentgrass, cocksfoot grass, field bindweed, common hogweed, creeping cinquefoil, yarrow and ground ivy — all without consulting...
...matriarch (Lady Maud Holland, played by Eileen Atkins), the rebellious young aristocrat (Lady Agnes’s sister, Persie, who flirts with Oswald Mosley’s fascists) and the spirited, ambitious young servant (Ivy...
...We’re on the home straight now, marching across what used to be Egdon Heath, which has now been planted with conifers by the Forestry Commission. Another blow to Hardy landscapists, I think....
...He loves England, and the morning routine of walking his dogs on Hampstead Heath. But the limitations of Britain frustrate him, particularly the work ethic and the barriers to entrepreneurship....
...He had to move house, he says: he was growing into his old flat “like ivy” and the books were taking over....
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