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Sweetcorn, the form of maize in which much of the starch is converted to sugar, is rather a novel sight in the kitchen garden, being grown in blocks rather than rows because, being a grass, its pollen is distributed by the wind rather than by insects. The tall plants are now papery-yellow and the crop about ready for harvest.
Test this by pressing your thumbnail into a few seeds. If milk squirts out, it needs longer. If a creamy liquid emerges, now is the hour. Off with the husk, boil for a few minutes, smear with butter and munch away.
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Tim Burton is selling the house he shared with Helena Bonham-Carter, a sublime home on the Thames that comes with three private islandsMill House in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, might just be the perfect English country home.
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Puffins and shearwaters, skuas and terns, gannets and gulls and guillemots and wings, these are a few of our favourite things (seabirds)From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills.
