Just married this summer, Ollie Seyfried runs Cott Farm Furniture, part of Cott Farm, East Chinnock, which has been a family business since 1973. Working on the chicken farm, producing free range eggs along with a farm shop that his Read more »
The Woodland Trust recently announced the shortlist of trees chosen to compete for the UK’s Tree of the Year competition. This year’s entries include the original Bramley apple tree from Southwell in Nottinghamshire, a Mulberry bush in west Yorkshire that Read more »
‘Maid in London’ is a website where hotel workers can post their reflections anonymously. Usually immigrants, often with uncertain legal status, vulnerable to blackmail, they work to punishing schedules and send their earnings home. The blog inspired one of the Read more »
This is, of course, the name of a bus which runs around our coastline, roughly from Poole to Exeter. It carries the excellent advertising slogan “One bus—millions of years of history”, which is quite true of our Jurassic Coast. It Read more »
With various birthdays and Christmas on the horizon, I have cleared out the larder, sterilised each saucepan, boiled every jam jar, Dettol-ised work tops and removed all traces of dog hair from the kitchen sink—all in preparation for my annual Read more »
Some years ago a friend said that if you want to walk some coastal path, the bit you have to do is from St Ives to Penzance, round Land’s End. In May 2007 I spent a few days in glorious Read more »
‘I was born in Yeovil maternity hospital in 1936. My mother died a couple of weeks later from septicaemia and complications following the birth; there were no antibiotics in those days. My father arranged for my paternal grandparents to bring Read more »
With luck October can yield a good many days upon which gardening is positively joyful. Not so cold that you have to be cocooned in many layers of restrictive clothing and yet not so hot that any degree of physical Read more »
The last few months have been a veggiehead’s dream, with warm nights, warm soil, good light levels and just enough rain. Every inch here has been taken up by growing crops, even the potatoes have no blight yet, and it’s Read more »