Rashmee Roshan Lall·Apr 1, 2025America’s soft power is felt even in Oxleas WoodsAmerica’s purchase on the imagination of the world is such that you can’t even take the dog for a Sunday run in the woods without colliding…
Rashmee Roshan Lall·Jan 17, 2025FRAG OF THE DAY* The woods are lovely…open and bareThere is a season for deep, dense green,
Rashmee Roshan Lall·May 14, 2024‘It felt like we had stepped into a Turner painting’One short sharp burst of rain and the English woods feel like we stepped into a Turner painting. The shower has served like a garden hose…
Rashmee Roshan Lall·Apr 8, 2024A secret spot to view London’s sakura-plus seasonYou won’t find this on any list of the best places to see cherry blossom in London.
Rashmee Roshan Lall·Dec 25, 2023Oxleas Woods hark back to an England that wasn’t England when it first existedAs we head off to this ‘ancient’ woodland for the annual end-of-year ramble, an edited repost of reflections on time and its passing
Rashmee Roshan Lall·Dec 30, 2022How Oxleas Woods became a ‘line in the sand’ for the environmental movementOne can only hope that Oxleas Woods does not need, once again, to serve as a “line in the sand” for the environmental movement.
Rashmee Roshan Lall·Dec 29, 2022Is Oxleas Woods threatened all over again?A reader and friend who’s local to Oxleas Woods in southeast London says that there are rumblings currently “of a planning application to…
Rashmee Roshan Lall·Dec 28, 2022Oxleas Woods: A still life in motionIt’s coming up to the 30-year anniversary of Oxleas Woods’ dramatic reprieve. In July 1993, the British government withdrew the Oxleas…
London Districts (Sightseeing real London)·Aug 19, 2017London Districts: Shooters HillShooters Hill is a district in South East London that comes under the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It connects with the north part of Eltham…
