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When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

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I’ve wandered into an oil painting. In front of me is a millpond with a cream-coloured cottage at its edge and a froth of English greenery on its banks. The scene is unmistakable. Where my mind’s eye

Brenzett, 2016, by Terry Hulf

Her lifelong passion for dogs and horses has shaped her career and lifestyle – and now it has led to her first grown-up novel. So what else lies ahead for the unstoppable Clare Balding?

IT’S NOT OFTEN YOU GET TO INTERVIEW A PAST EDITOR of this very magazine but James Hobbs – author, artist and former journalist – was just that. “I did a BA in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and