Boating inland on rivers and canals brings its ...

At around 9am on Tuesday 30 January 1607, the tide in the Bristol Channel started rising – and didn’t stop. To the horror of folk along the coast, as eyewitness William Jones put it, “mighty hills of

‘Any opportunity to use water should be taken.’ So wrote Dame Sylvia Crowe in her seminal book, Garden Design, found on every garden designer’s bookshelf. It is a maxim that many of us follow, althoug

HELEN anxiously closed her curtains. The wind was tearing around the house, slamming rain against the windows and harassing the trees. The rain hadn’t stopped since lunchtime. She’d spent this first d

In an extract from her new book, The Atlas of Deadly Plants , author Jane Perrone takes us on a journey into the history and dangerous allure of popular plants such as lily of the valley

M Y PRACTICAL introduction to fly-fishing came in ...