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<strong>Hitchin, Hertfordshire:</strong> This magnificent black poplar survived lightning and bracket fungus. Now it’s gone – but the story isn’t over yet
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<strong>Hitchin, Hertfordshire:</strong> This magnificent black poplar survived lightning and bracket fungus. Now it’s gone – but the story isn’t over yet
ON AN overcast but not cold morning a group of eleven walkers met up with Joy from Penarth and District Ramblers at the start of a six mile Shortish…
Young Jacob and Samuel were boyhood friends living in a quaint country town, they explored, picked blueberries, went swimming in the river and fished for elusive trout on long summer days. One of the best fishing holes in their little town was Dagody...
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Sat 13 Mar 2021 10.00 EST Sun spangles the tide, shells dot the shore and the pale beach stretches for miles in both directions. I am by the sea at Chapel St Leonards once more. The Lincolnshire coast is in my head all the time, waiting to be revisited. Just a few steps from the village green up and over the Pulley, as they still call the passage where horses once pulled cargoes of paraffin and tobacco up from the beach, and there it will be: the spotless sand, so flat, so uninterrupted, and the familiar waves of my childhood. Coming on summer holidays from Scotland to my mother’s birthplac...