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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

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

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

Making spaces

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

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

The best of the East

Four newly launched properties make East Anglia ever more alluring

Мар of heaven

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

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

THE GOLDEN MILE

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

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

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

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

Walk another day

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

The Comet jet airliner

by the de Havilland Aircraft Company

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

'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

English Arcadia

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

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

Here's rosemary...

I'VE fallen newly in love with rosemary.

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

Take to the hills

Find the perfect springboard to enjoy the beauty of The Cotswolds

Setting the scene

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

Spreading the love for elderflower jam

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

A perfect finish

The renovation of an old barn led the way to the making of two new interconnecting gardens that together reflect the Cotswold vernacular and the contemporary interior, reveals Tiffany Daneff

This dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool

Blessed with good looks and a sunny personality, it hardly seems fair that golden retrievers are also intelligent and adaptablebut it does explain their popularity, says Katy Birchall

The moonlight hunt

Pippin sees off an intruder and spring comes to Dumfriesshire

Watering plans

TURN on the fountains!' exclaimed the head gardener of a country house to his gardeners when he realised that an unexpected visitor was none other than the eminent Victorian rose grower and Dean of Rochester Samuel Reynolds Hole.

Satan of the riverbank

More bat than bird, the cormorant might have a gait that makes a penguin look like a supermodel, but it is actually a fearsome and effective aquatic predator, says Harry Pearson

The colours and textures of the past

Traditional paints and lime mortars-prized for their sympathy to historic buildings -are sought after for their subtle colours and finishes, too, finds Arabella Youens

Surrey spectacular

If these impressive properties are anything to go by, this resilient county is in fine health