Chipping Campden is a large village/small town quilted into the Cotswolds like a button on an overstuffed Victorian chair and like all […]
Archive for ‘Gardens’
A garden full of sculptures for Oxfordshire Artweek
On Bank Holiday Monday Chris and I went to the last day of “Sculpture at Kingham Lodge” in the nearby […]
Aghast or Amused? Questions of Taste at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
My legs still hurt a bit. On Monday I spent eight hours walking round Chelsea Flower Show and only sat down […]
Arisaig, Part II – Borrowed Landscapes
It’s not hard to spot a large Victorian garden – a few towering American conifers from that golden era of […]
Snowshill, snooping and snipping
I live in the shadow of the Cotswolds, and much as I’d love to have a dinky little Cotswold stone […]
Chelsea Flower Show – No balls of steel this year, but plenty of nerve.
You’ve got to be tough to do a garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show. I’m not talking about the long […]
Lighten up
I’m not good with winter: I become cranky (crankier) and I crave hibernation, I hate the short, grey nature of […]
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