I’ve always wanted to make a wreath to hang on our door during the winter but never had a clue where to start. Now I know how to make a Christmas wreath! But that’s only because I attended a workshop at Gravetye Manor in West Sussex. It’s one of the best luxury countryside hotels in […]
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Whenever we go for a walk my children instantly start searching for trees to climb. And I always let them climb trees. Number one in the National Trust’s list of “50 things to do before you’re 11 ¾” is climb a tree. In parks and woods where there are trees whose lower arms spread out
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I don’t care whether it’s summer or winter, I try and always have fresh homemade vanilla ice cream in our home. When it’s warm, a few scoopfuls in a cone with a chocolate flake results in two very happy children. When it’s cold, a scoop with a hot apple pie or fruit crumble just out
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What stories and images come to your mind when you think of an enchanted forest? Let me take you on the fairy tale adventure of the twins Luce and Theo at Groombridge Place. They boarded a boat and went along a quiet canal where the trees appeared above and below the water. Alas, they were shipwrecked.
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We know people talk a lot about the weather all the time in Britain. Even a couple of centuries ago you could expect the same. As Samuel Johnson wrote back in 1758: “It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each
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I remember the scramble at school on who managed to get the milk first. The best part was the creamy top in the bottle. I was at boarding school in Dorset where fresh local milk was delivered daily. In London the milk float used to deliver bottles every day at our home. Over 30 years
