LIFE IN A TREEHOUSE: Star Wars and Semaphore.
POPPIES: How to sow them for summer colour.
EATING SNAILS: Why home-grown snails taste better than their French counterparts.
DOGS: Why our pooches understand us.
LOLA YOUNG'S FAVOURITE PAINTING: The Baroness makes her choice.
THE FIGHT FOR FARNHAM: How the plight of the Surrey town has lessons for us.
DOGS POST-LOCKDOWN: How to ease them back into normal life.
POLOS: A minty celebration.
THE COLOUR OF MONEY: How great estates carefully colour-code their properties.
WRITERS' HOUSES: Novelists' homes for sale.
ELDERFLOWER: Ed Brown on one of spring's joys.
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'To exist in this world relies on the hands of others': Roger Powell and modern British bookbindingAn exhibition on the legendary bookbinder Roger Powell reveals not only his great skill, but serves to reconnect us with the joy, power and importance of real craftsmanship.
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Spam: The tinned meaty treat that brought a taste of the ‘hot-dog life of Hollywood’ to war-weary BritainCourtesy of our ‘special relationship’ with the US, Spam was a culinary phenomenon, says Mary Greene. So much so that in 1944, London’s Simpson’s, renowned for its roast beef, was offering creamed Spam casserole instead.
