A heathland valley rarer than a rainforest
A visit to a friend’s house last week admiring and picking her heather reminded me that I needed to take my twins for a walk […]
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Travel diary
Travel diary of gardens, nature reserves, walks, houses and historic places to escape to and explore in the UK, USA and Portugal. Includes travel photography, botanical stories and ideas for a family day out with kids.
Nymans Part 1 – a seasonal menu
I like to think of my visits to Nymans as courses from a seasonal menu. I could indulge in an all day banquet by touring
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Chiddingstone Castle – authors, eccentrics and gardens
It was by chance that I discovered Chiddingstone Castle. I was told that an old friend I hadn’t seen in years – Virge Gilchrist –
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It’s tulip time
I visited Gravetye Manor’s gardens yesterday to see what was blooming. Frank Sinatra’s song ‘It had to be you’ suddenly was in my head when
The Seven Sisters
I spent a couple of days with Luce and Theo on the East Sussex coast this past week. It was really a spur of the
Bottle feed a baby lamb
This week my twins were thrilled by the experience of bottle feeding some baby lambs. Usually I’m the one in our family that gets rather excited
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