Hints and tips:
...Sarah Taylor leads me to an overspill area that drains into a brook and from there to the Thame, a tributary of the Thames....
...His vision is of beavers coppicing mature willows to let in light. The animals build dams across the brook. This creates a series of pools. The beavers dig channels to connect them....
...Start with a cocktail or a glass of blanc de blanc with oysters, watch the sun set over the Thames, and stay a while....
...At the former, you definitely want to rent a boat from Hobbs of Henley and go chugging down the Thames....
...Warrington’s good schools prompted Rose Cheung, 34, and her husband Wilson, 46, to buy a four-bedroom detached house in the new Willow Fields development for just under £485,000....
...I met Stacey on the edge of the Thames in ground that once housed Pope’s fine weeping willows. The view down the river made the trip seem worthwhile, whatever awaited us below ground....
...I add two twigs of pussy willow and two stems of vivid pink nerine to the base of skimmia flowers....
...When Kenneth Grahame’s mole sits for the first time by the river in The Wind and the Willows, what he hears is “a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to...
...star-cross’d lovers, Romeo and Juliet, then moves on to the musical Carousel and two family shows.openairtheatre.com Shakespeare’s Globe, London The beautiful replica Elizabethan playhouse beside the Thames...
...Willow One-year-old Willow joined Charles King and family in Buckinghamshire the night before the first lockdown....
...She finds a dead swift by the Thames, places the body in her freezer, and buries it the following spring. She skins a road-killed fox for a rug, then discovers she is allergic....
...The Jeff Bezos of his day, Astor juggled vanity projects across the world, from his eponymous New York hotel to Cliveden, the grand stately home on the Thames in Buckinghamshire....
...From the front, views over a grassy terrace lead up towards a wooded expanse of oaks, alders, Scots pines and willows through a valley and out towards Glen Isla....
...Soon the sails of yachts and sometimes Thames barges drift into sight....
...And sure enough, in this not very affluent and fairly unprepossessing stretch of south London, the river shimmers under the dappled shade of self-seeded willow trees....
...Willows....
...Dean, a bucolic village in the Berkshire commuter belt, is where Scottish-born author Kenneth Grahame spent the happiest years of his childhood, and where he returned to write his novel, The Wind in the Willows...
...That first day was pure Wind in the Willows....
...At the same time as raw sewage was allowed to flow into a river lined with weeping willows and daffodils, money was gushing out of the country’s biggest water utility....
...This year’s event takes place from June 28 until July 2 at its permanent home, Henley-on-Thames in south Oxfordshire....
...Kenneth Grahame’s immortal love letter to the Thames, The Wind in the Willows, begins with gentle Mole encountering a spring river for the first time....
...Generous groups of blue-flowered willow gentians have not asserted themselves....
...He also developed a passion for churches and for the River Thames....
...CV: Born: Henley-on-Thames, May 1967 Education: Marlborough College, Wiltshire....
...Cosgrove Hall, the studio that made Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and the Bafta and Emmy award winning Wind in the Willows, is back in business....
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