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A small forest garden
Watch now (25 mins) | August felt like a good time not to send newsletters to pile up like issues of the local free newspaper on the doormat for when…
Sep 14
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July 2023
Summer pause
Hello and I hope you are having an excellent November, for November is how it feels in the UK. After a hot, dry May and June, July has been gloomy…
Jul 31
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Figs: a fruit and a herb
In 1988, I ate my first fresh fig. It was handed to me by the person who’d grown it on the Greek island of Santorini. It was melting, succulent and with…
Jul 26
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Photoshoots
What and how
Jul 18
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1979: Boys Keep Swinging
We all have our reasons for stealing. Terry is in a hurry to grow up, Peter spends too much time attached to a machine for his lungs, Steve just likes a…
Jul 10
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June 2023
The Next Book
If you have been here for a while, you may remember I wrote about a book idea I thought would be fun - and hopefully useful - to follow from lightbulb…
Jun 28
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A joyful weekend at home
Every early winter, I lay a fire, a teetering Jenga of kindling, a waxed fire lighter at its heart like the boiled egg in the log of luncheon meat the…
Jun 22
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A year gone
And some of what's to come
Jun 15
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I'm in a lemon verbena state of mind
as Billy Joel almost said
Jun 7
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May 2023
One rather than a hundred
Watch now (23 secs) | I’ve never been much of a July and August kind of guy. When you have skin like supermarket pastry, it takes three weeks…
May 31
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James Alexander-Sinclair
Listen now (56 mins) | Garden designer, Chelsea Flower Show judge, writer and much more
May 19
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Four pies, four years, four goals
Four years ago today, the greatest match ever played*. In many ways, that it was the greatest match - that it was football - isn’t crucial. Before the…
May 7
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