A Year in Oxleas Woods: December
By Emma Warren It’s harder than you think to come up with a pagan ceremony that isn’t totally embarrassing. My...
12th January 2015
Tagged as: Up The Woods column
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A Year In Oxleas Woods: November
Words and picture by Emma Warren. It is very early and very foggy, like being inside a cloud. Everything is...8th December 2014
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A Year In Oxleas Woods: October
Words and picture by Emma Warren. It’s a warm and windy morning at the start of the month and I’m...18th November 2014
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A Year In Oxleas Woods: September
Words and pictures by Emma Warren. Every area has a parakeet creation myth. I’ve heard south Londoners say they originated...13th October 2014
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A Year in Oxleas Woods: August
Words and pictures by Emma Warren The rain is coming down, torrentially and the woods look as if they’ve been...11th September 2014
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A Year in Oxleas Woods: July
Words and pictures by Emma Warren “Shall we go and find our tree again? I love that tree.” Three nearly-teens...12th August 2014
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A Year in Oxleas Woods: June
Words and pictures: Emma Warren It’s late on a hot Sunday afternoon. There’s a line of people meandering up the...11th July 2014
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A Year In Oxleas Woods: May
By Emma Warren. The trees are bulging out onto the right hand side of Shooter’s Hill Road, a continuous mass...6th June 2014
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A Year In Oxleas Woods: April
Words: Emma Warren Pictures: Georgina Cook First, a mea culpa. I haven’t been to the woods for over three weeks...9th May 2014
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A Year In Oxleas Woods: March
By Emma Warren. Oxleas Woods are a natural boundary. They mark the edges of Greenwich and Bexley boroughs, and they’re...1st April 2014
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A Year in Oxleas Woods: February
By Emma Warren. To know something well, you have to understand it. For Oxleas, that means orientation around least three...3rd March 2014
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A Year in Oxleas Woods
by Emma Warren On the floor of Oxleas Woods there’s a circle of dropped leaf, twig and acorn underneath a...28th January 2014
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Up The Woods
illustration: Matt Sewell Words by Emma Warren. This time last year I watched the council pollard all the trees on...29th October 2013
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Up The Woods
illustration: Matt Sewell Words by Emma Warren. I am in the middle of one of England's largest pine forests and...20th August 2013
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Up The Woods
illustration: Matt Sewell By Emma Warren. I am now on first name terms with a whole swathe of common and...10th June 2013
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Up The Woods
illustration: Matt Sewell Emma Warren continues her mission to learn about trees: The trees have begun to reveal themselves, now...15th May 2013
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Up The Woods
Illustration: Matt Sewell. A new column from Emma Warren. I've always liked trees. I remember the first time someone explained...9th April 2013