Yesterday remembered

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Our columnist fondly recalls her childhood Christmases – apart from the time the milk ran out!

Meet Erik the Irish draught horse I rode on my 70th birthday recently! I didn’t want a conventional party so opted for eight of us to go pony-trekking, then for a delicious lunch at a local farm that

HELLO, little one!” Penny Dauntless greeted a robin-redbreast, who cocked his head as she pushed along her trolley of post on the daily round. “How often is there such a perfect mid-December morning?”

STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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