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Listen now (56 min) | Garden designer, Chelsea Flower Show judge, writer and much more
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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…
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A simple book spreadsheet
Watch now (18 min) | Last month’s post about building a scaffold for your book got a great reaction: dozens of emails, comments on social media and…
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April 2023
Weekly window into our gardens
Morning morning morning. I've just got back from walking the dog. At least I think it was our dog I was walking, as it was so misty I could hardly see…
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Nine star broccoli
Watch now (1 min) | Despite growing perhaps as great a variety of food as anyone in this country - everything from pecans to almonds, Chilean guava to…
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Building a scaffold
Remember that dull but really useful post from a while back? It’s time for another. Like that one, it is pleasingly short, but (I hope…
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Wild garlic: two almost recipes
If you look at Lake Como in Italy on a map, it resembles a skinny blue figure, striding west through the hills of northern Italy. When I was half the…
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March 2023
You Know I Feel Alright
I have only been to Liverpool a handful of times, yet when I step off the train, clock the big clock, and walk out on to the high, wide steps with…
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Cathy Rentzenbrink...
Listen now (58 min) | talks about the art, craft and practicalities of writing
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Japanese quince
Watch now (1 min) | Most mornings, I am out of the house within 10 minutes of being awake, having persuaded a snoring hound to give up his corner of the…
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February 2023
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