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Nothing smells more like summer than a freshly mown hayfield. Even in winter, when the hay bales gathered under summer sunshine are broken into, the scent is enough to take me back to those achingly bright, cloudless days, permeated by sweltering heat and steeped in sweat, working the field with my ...

Sir Dirk Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde of a Scots mother and a Flemish father who was the art editor of The Times. The young Derek Bogaerde was brought up in Sussex by his sister Elizabeth and his nanny. Educated at Glen’s School in Glasgow and London University, ...

A group of Cranleigh women – we don’t know their names – returned to the village on August 5th 1916 after a wartime adventure of their own. They had been doing war work in Cambridgeshire since the last days of June, engaged in picking fruit. They had been billeted in the Liberal Hall in the ...

We have been thanking entities and industrious farmers for bountiful harvests since pagan times. Harvest is the time to celebrate reaping what we have sown earlier in the year, be that crops or something else entirely. It’s time to reflect on what you will be gathering this season. What have you ...

These recipes do not make up a three course meal and can be eaten separately. These recipes have been produced with the theme “grains” for the month of Harvest. All three contain grains that are either wheat or oats. Equipment you’ll need: 1 x 20cm pancake frying pan 1 x 20 cm rectangular ...

July can be one of the hottest months of the year and a wonderful time just to sit and enjoy your garden with friends and family. Keep plants looking good by regularly dead-heading, and you’ll enjoy a longer lasting display of blooms. Make sure you keep new plants well watered, using grey water ...