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Country Life
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Here's a good tip I learned at this year's Chelsea Flower Show, from the wonderful Auricula specialist nursery, W & S Lockyer:
If, after you have washed your old terracotta pots, there are still crusty deposits which are difficult to remove, try soaking the pots overnight in a bucket of water to which you have added a couple of Steradent tablets [made for cleaning false teeth!].
Often, this is enough to get the pots really clean again.
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From James Bond to Centre Court, how terry towelling took the world by comfortTerry towelling — whether it be clothing babies, adorning a poolside Bond or mopping tennis players’ brows — altered domestic life forever.
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A grand manor house with a window taken from Lord Nelson's flagship, set in one of Britain's most beautiful — and quirkiest — villagesLavenham Hall in Suffolk is on the market, a grand country house with a genuinely unique feature: one of the windows from Lord Nelson’s HMS Foudroyant.
