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Living The Hi-Lux

Our correspondent and two fishing friends find the refreshed Toyota Hi-Lux is more than a match for New Zealand’s rocky terrain and a mountain of gear.

Taking The Long View

The champion racehorse trainer on quality over quantity and preserving Newmarket.

Inspired By The Past

A brand’s heritage is the building block from which it may reach new heights. Nick Hammond meets the archivists cataloguing, preserving and proudly protecting our nation’s retail DNA.

Cutting It Fine

The ancient art of wood engraving requires introspection and secrecy in order to create intriguing and intricate pieces of work, discovers Clive Aslet.

‘Treason' Or ‘Things People Liked'?

The first exhibition devoted to the British Post-Modernism Movement shows it was not only about style, but about reconnecting with the past

A Taste Of Honeysuckle

I’VE probably grown more species of honeysuckle than of any other genus except, perhaps, roses and primulas. I love them—but not all of them. An evergreen ground cover plant called Lonicera pileata doesn’t interest me at all.

Keep It In The Family

Dig deep into the history of interior design and you’ll find that the roots of countless stellar careers can be traced to the fertile partnership between the ‘mother’ and ‘father’ of classic British interior design, Nancy Lancaster and John Fowler. In unearthing the web of who worked for whom, Arabella Youens discovers the essence of the creative DNA at the heart of classic English decoration

Alive With Adventure

Whether you go in search of adventure, family fun or a quiet break, you will leave this hospitable land of history, Nature and tradition enriched and invigorated

Living National Treasure

I work all the time,’ declares James Butler MBE, RA, RWA, FRBS. ‘Every day, I go into the studio in the morning and set about things. I don’t know any other way to live.’

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bug

From paralysing snails to lighting lamps, David Profumo shines a light on the life of a glow-worm, which isn’t actually a worm at all

Stop Fly-Tipping Now

FARMING and conservation bodies have welcomed the launch of a new Government review to step up the fight against waste crime.

Why it's time to list the landscape

Michael Gove should be applauded for his desire to enhance and possibly extend our national parks and AONBs

Mind Your Manors

The mark of time is visible on every part of these three historic houses

Navigating The Pecking Order

Greeting someone has become something of a social minefield. Victoria Marston tackles the question on everybody’s lips: to kiss or not to kiss?

A Magnificent Puzzle

Crichel, Dorset , part I The Home of Mr and Mrs Richard Chilton, Jr In the first of two articles, John Martin Robinson looks at the Georgian evolution of this extraordinary building, which has, wrapped within its 1770s exterior, a 1740s house.

Coming Alive

Sometimes fiction and fact blend seamlessly and a collection sheds new light on war

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

John McEwen comments on Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

Saw Maker

Living National Treasure

Let's 'Ear It For The Norfolk

These feisty little dogs, the smallest of the terrier family, are short of leg, but long on personality, finds Kate Green.

Mercantile Splendour

One of the most important late-medieval merchant’s houses in the country offers a vivid insight into Tudor living on the grand scale.

Sink Or Swim

The humble dumpling is a stomach-filling staple, but what exactly constitues a Norfolk ‘swimmer’, asks Eve Stebbing.

Too Cool For School

A revelatory new exhibition prompts Charles Darwent to reflect on the nature of American inter-war art

My Favourite Painting Pam Ayres

The Boundary Rider by John Pickup

New Balls, Please

It has witnessed boom times and bust and, now, Price of Bath is the UK’s last remaining tennis-ball maker. Julie Harding meets the family putting the bounce into our balls

Respect Your Elders

TO be in the countryside in May, when spring allows summer to float across its mind, is a pleasure that never wears off.

Picturesque Wonderland

Tim Richardson is impressed by an intimate exhibition that explores the relationship between Humphry Repton and one of his greatest clients

Rich Tapestries Of Life

The contents sale of North Mymms Park brings back happy memories

Roll Out The Red Carpet

Liz Rowlinson explores the real-estate bubble that is Cannes and what the glamour of the film festival has done for the area

Southern Sun

Glittering sea and soaring mountains make for a dramatic backdrop to Cyprus’s increasingly upmarket coastal resorts

The Race Is On

Speed, skill and mega-watt glamour: Holly Kirkwood tracks where to buy in Monaco to benefit from Grand Prix fever