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Interiors The designer's room
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Interiors The designer's room

Dark-green cabinets, crisp white walls and wooden beams combine to create the ideal kitchen for a large family

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April 27, 2022
Dyeing to help
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Dyeing to help

IT often feels as if responsibility for saving the planet falls heavily on the shoulders of gardeners.

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April 27, 2022
Gardening on the edge
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Gardening on the edge

The gardens of Mansard House, Bardwell, Suffolk The home of Tom and Mary Hoblyn Catharine Howard visits the garden of an award-winning Chelsea designer, who uses it as his plant laboratory

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April 27, 2022
'How lovely are the things you help us to perceive'
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'How lovely are the things you help us to perceive'

Pictures should 'fill a man's soul with admiration and sheer joy, Sir Alfred Munnings famously said. Octavia Pollock charts his eventful life and argues that he perhaps does not receive the credit he deserves for the enjoyment his varied and vivid work has brought

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April 27, 2022
364 vs Australia, The Oval, 1938
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364 vs Australia, The Oval, 1938

IN 1997, The Times listed the 100 Greatest Cricketers of All Time, chosen by the long-serving cricket correspondent and former Wisden editor John Woodcock.

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April 27, 2022
A love letter to Norfolk
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A love letter to Norfolk

Dinky market towns and seal-strewn beaches? Local opinions, Sunday drives, Blackpool-of-the-East and early churches, this is novelist D. J. Taylor's Norfolk and he wouldn't want to live anywhere else

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April 27, 2022
A plum role
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A plum role

Jonathan Spain considers the Cambridge gage, a variant of our old English greengage, the story of which ranges from the Caucasus Mountains to the Chivers jam factory in Histon Cambridgeshire

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April 27, 2022
On the wings of a turtle dove
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On the wings of a turtle dove

Dainty, smaller and darker than its collared cousin, the turtle dove is in danger of dying out, but not if a new Norfolk-based trust has anything to do with it

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April 27, 2022
And they all lived together in a little crooked house
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And they all lived together in a little crooked house

The Crooked House of nursery-rhyme fame has been through many incarnations in the past 600 years. Flora Watkins travels to the enchanting village of Lavenham, Suffolk, to meet its latest custodians

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April 27, 2022
Birds in their little nests agree
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Birds in their little nests agree

As he repairs a fence that's gone floppy thanks to the cattle rubbing against it, John Lewis-Stempel pauses on a warm April morning to admire all the birds busily building and lining their nests with cow hair

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April 27, 2022
Making spaces
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Making spaces

There's an alchemy to creating houses that don't only function perfectly, but look beautiful, too

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April 27, 2022
The serene interior
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The serene interior

Longstowe Hall, Cambridgeshire The home of William and Mercedes Bevan | The remodeling of an Elizabethan house by an Edwardian industrialist created superb interiors in the aesthetic of 17th-century Dutch art

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April 27, 2022
The best of the East
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The best of the East

Four newly launched properties make East Anglia ever more alluring

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April 27, 2022
Мар of heaven
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Мар of heaven

A superb Chinese chart takes centre stage in New York and an artist shows that ‘melancholy is underrated'

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April 27, 2022
There's pickle in the jar
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There's pickle in the jar

Friend of the cheese sandwich and bastion of the ploughman's lunch, Branston Pickle has graced our cupboards for a century

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April 27, 2022
THE GOLDEN MILE
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THE GOLDEN MILE

A Government-backed scheme to pedestrianise parts of The Strand is throwing light on the road's gilded history

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May 04, 2022
We are the champions
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We are the champions

British eventing is on the crest of a wave, with titles and gold medals galore, and you can see those stars in action on home ground at Badminton Horse Trials this weekend, promises Kate Green

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May 04, 2022
THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO... Amy Corbin
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THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO... Amy Corbin

The restaurateur talks to Flora Watkins about opening on the 'wrong' side of Peckham and prawn cocktails at The Wolseley

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May 04, 2022
Wild about the garden
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Wild about the garden

The garden of Ready Token House, Gloucestershire The home of Mark and Tabitha Mayall Retaining the Arts-and-Crafts elements of a 1920s garden, the owners have added a sympathetic new terrace, as well as returning the surrounding fields to meadow

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May 04, 2022
Walk another day
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Walk another day

Some of the James Bond franchise's most famous scenes have been captured around the capital, discovers Carla Passino

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May 04, 2022
The Comet jet airliner
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The Comet jet airliner

by the de Havilland Aircraft Company

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May 04, 2022
Contemporary artists of the Cotswolds
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Contemporary artists of the Cotswolds

Living in such a picturesque part of the countryside means that the work of many Cotswold-based artists flourished rather than floundered due to the pandemic

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May 04, 2022
'Rejoice together in a happy ending'
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'Rejoice together in a happy ending'

Nursery favourite Ruth Manning-Sanders believed it was every child's birthright to enter a world of enchantment and occasional terrors, where good always triumphs over evil

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May 04, 2022
English Arcadia
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English Arcadia

The rolling Cotswolds countryside is the enchanting backdrop to six handsome properties

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May 04, 2022
Enter and be happy
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Enter and be happy

Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire A property of the Society of Antiquaries of London A house beloved of William Morris, poet, designer and founding father of the conservation-movement, has been subject to an exacting programme of repair and renovation

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May 04, 2022
Here's rosemary...
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Here's rosemary...

I'VE fallen newly in love with rosemary.

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May 04, 2022
Life's a beech
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Life's a beech

If oak is king of the wood, the smooth-skinned and towering beech is queenand long may she reign over our landscape

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May 04, 2022
Take to the hills
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Take to the hills

Find the perfect springboard to enjoy the beauty of The Cotswolds

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May 04, 2022
Setting the scene
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Setting the scene

Before choosing outdoor furniture, it's important to plan an outdoor space, says designer Jo Thompson

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May 04, 2022
Spreading the love for elderflower jam
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Spreading the love for elderflower jam

Delicate yet fragrant elderflowers make a jam that tastes like an English summer-especially when married with gooseberries

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May 04, 2022