Boing boing! I’m all of a bounce despite the awful winter weather we’ve been having. Freezing fields, driving rain, biting winds and local floods - not ...

By Simone Conti Bruschetta with plum tomatoes, olives and goat's curdServes 4 as a snack, Serves 2 as a starter This month I was really undecided ...

By Miki Marks Ronald Blythe died in January this year – at the age of 100 just after a new book of his writings was compiled and published, under the ...

By Sharon Duggan This article is the first in a series of personal perspectives on electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid cars.  This month from an EV owner, ...

By Penny Lynch We all know that eating a diet that is full of organic food is healthier for us. Organic food is generally richer in nutrients and of course ...

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by Joy Horn Main image - Common House Farm, when Edward Brown occupied it, around 1910-13. The pond is occasionally still called 'Brown's pond'. We have ...

Main picture: Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) The story so far…last month I reported my progress in trying to see 120 bird species in and around ...

Rosemary Bridge, retired schoolteacher I was born in 1941 when my parents were living in Colwyn Bay, in Wales.  My family moved there because my ...

by Nick Thorogood and Caroline Pearl Love is all around us, love is in the air, love is a many splendored thing and all sorts of cliches come to mind as ...