Rashmee Roshan Lall·Aug 8, 2024The best security is a wall…of good peopleAs the longtime coordinator of a Neighbourhood Watch in London, England, here’s what we tell people we’re hoping to sign up: the best…
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 1, 2024Easter time travel: An 18th century London ‘folly’ linked to India adventureEaster is a good day to visit Severndroog Castle, an 18th century architectural ‘folly’ in southeast London.A response icon1A response icon1
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…
Forest Hill Family·Mar 20, 2017Interview with local Forest Hill dadThis week we are catching up with a local Forest Hill dad to hear his views on living in the area. Paul, 41 is a Creative Director/Producer…
