‘in summer, i live. in winter, i exist.’

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

While the countdown to autumn trail-hunting is on for Tessa Waugh , she enjoys a day in excellent company at the local agricultural show, where her sheep wow the judges

A short while after we married, Tom and I made the decision to leave behind our hectic London lives and relocate to the tranquillity of rural living. We wanted a slower pace of life where the countrys

A Blencathra bitch is champion for the third year running, and there’s emotion round the ring when a Cumbria beagle takes the supreme

EVERY time I smell the sweet scent of September air, I am transported back to Alderley Cottage. I am walking up the garden path strewn with grass and twigs towards a faded blue painted door with a bro

The Helmsdale may have had a heart-sinkingly slow start to the season, but a week’s adventuring on the famed river still offers plenty to write home about