• ON Saturday I joined an organised walk, starting from the bandstand at Parliament Hill Fields.

We followed the course of the Fleet River along its chain of ponds, to where it oozes out of the ground, sloping down from Kenwood House.

We were rained on but a dozen of us were very well led and informed by Susie Glover, a City of London education officer. What most impressed me was the landscaping around the boating pond, which is part of the overall damming project. It is now spectacularly beautiful.

The northern slope to the pond has been opened up, shown in all its glory, and an island created so as to save a fine group of trees from being felled.

Finishing up in the café at Kenwood House, with a small group of us, I felt glad and thankful. What a wonderful testimony we have to the art of landscaping, that has come out of making us safer from flooding.

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