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EDITOR’S BLOG
Gardening: Beautiful Borders
Is there anything more quintessentially English than a cottage garden border?
Gardening: A rose by any other name
There’s a rose in my garden which looks like a raspberry ripple ice cream. The Rosa Ferdinand Pichard is a thing of beauty and makes me smile every time I walk past it.
Review: Cheese Box, Winter Tarn Dairy, Lake District / Manchester
There’s a card on my wall which sums me up perfectly. A present from my sister, it reads: ‘She just couldn’t behave herself with cheese.’
Gardening: The (unexpected) joy of a shed
It’s odd how your priorities change as you get older. In my younger days I lived in London with access to a communal garden. I was content to wander round, cats in tow, safe in the knowledge that someone else would mow the grass and sort out the weeds.
Gardening is glorious
My Gran used to say that the best thing about gardening was the anticipation.
“Libraries are hanging on by their fingernails.” Author Patrick Gale talks to Northern Soul
The novelist Patrick Gale knows how to write an opening line.
Gardening is good
It may sound a bit twee, but my garden is my sanctuary. Whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed, overworked or overwrought, I open the back door, step outside and immediately feel better.
Food Review: Northcote, Langho, Blackburn
I am many things but I am not a good cook.
Review: The Tiger Who Came to Tea and the adventures of Mog the Forgetful Cat, Z-arts, Manchester
As I looked at the oversized cat flap, built to let children into Mog the Forgetful Cat’s world, I let out a sigh.
Review: LEGOLAND, Trafford Centre, Manchester
It’s four years since I last took my niece to LEGOLAND at Manchester’s Trafford Centre.
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