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Ann Janes »
A CLIMBER FOR ALL SEASONS
Posted on 9:41am Monday 23rd January 2012
Climbers are amongst the most versatile and valuable of garden plants and high on the list of the best of these are clematis.
Oliver Phillips »
Traumas, big or small, never seem far from our door
Posted on 8:21am Thursday 19th January 2012
WE tend to suffer some degree of trauma whenever we head back to England. We have so many to see, and appointments to meet, we do tend to run a tight schedule. Over the years we have tried to modulate it in that we progress up and down the M40 rather than hare back and forth.
Adam Parsons »
Poetic response to my views on man-flu
Posted on 4:11pm Monday 16th January 2012
Well, here’s a first. Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to receive letters, phone calls, emails and tweets in response to things I’ve written or broadcast. But never before have my opinions sparked anyone into sending me a poem in response.
Catherine Cain »
You've got to hand it to Madonna
Posted on 10:58am Monday 16th January 2012
You can do all you can to hold back time, but it always weighs heavy in your hands. It’s definitely where the ageing process shows - and there’s not much you can do about it, except wear a pair of Chanel gloves at all times, obviously.
Ann Janes »
A SPLASH OF COLOUR FOR WINTER
Posted on 10:34am Monday 16th January 2012
So many gardens are short of bright colour at this time of year.
Oliver Phillips »
Briefly tapping into the source of Da do ron ron
Posted on 1:30pm Friday 13th January 2012
AFTER leaving the Italian restaurant and “de woise guys in the Bronx, Nooo York”, we walked along the main drag to the junction of 147th and Crotona. As it happens, that is just block from 147th and Belmont. The route was one of two moments of nostalgia I had designed to be included that day.
Ann Janes »
DOES YOUR GARDEN NEED SOME SPARKLE?
Posted on 7:28pm Sunday 8th January 2012
Gardens don't have to be uninviting gloomy places during the cold months. It really isn't good sense to allow our gardens to lapse into no-go areas during the winter.
Oliver Phillips »
A day in da Bronx, well it was jest poifect
Posted on 1:30pm Friday 6th January 2012
ONE of our daughters was and still is fascinated by the Mafia. She even took a holiday in Sicily while a teenager and has an encyclopaedia and who’s who of the Cosa Nostra.
Catherine Cain »
The evaporated spirit of Christmas past
Posted on 11:43am Tuesday 3rd January 2012
I braved the post-Christmas sales a couple of times in the last week or so, but it was a depressing experience. The twinkling lights and tinsel garlands that looked so jaunty and promising right up to closing time on December 25 now served as a limp reminder that the annual escape from rational reality was well and truly over.
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