Like my daughter, I was mesmerized by the paintings and retelling of the classic love story Beauty and the Beast by Max Eilenberg and illustrated by Angela Barrett. This version of the fairy tale enthralled my daughter. The story is closer to the original – La Belle et la Bete – written by the French author Jeanne-Marie […]
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My guide to identifying and spotting what to forage in countryside hedgerows: I don’t have to go far to forage. In fact I can do it in my garden and in the hedgerows around us here in southeast England. The rainbow over our valley and hedgerows this week didn’t lead me to a pot of
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No matter what season you can expect quite a bird experience at the RSPB Dungeness nature reserve in Kent, south east England. The nearly 1000 hectares of nature reserve with lakes and marshes is part of the otherworldly shingle landscape of Dungeness on the edge of the English channel. It’s a place where you can
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After living two years in the Hamptons in the US, one thing we’ve desperately missed since we returned to the UK is wide open beaches with golden sands. We were pretty spoilt as the Atlantic beaches in Long Island are considered some of the top in the world. Well we found a perfect English beach
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I’ve noticed the passing seasons by what I gather and cut outdoors to bring inside. It’s only early September but I can see, smell, hear, feel and taste the change. Despite a lingering sadness in me that I have to say goodbye to summer and the swallows who sang to me every morning outside my
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There’s something terribly English and refreshing about a fruit fool. The end of summer and start of autumn meant it was perfect timing for the charms of a blackberry fool. We have an overabundance growing in our garden so I didn’t even have to wander down the lanes picking wild blackberries from hedgerows. I must admit it
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