Gingerbread capital of the lowlands

“ I met Charles Dickens today, except he had clearly been so busy working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood that he had fallen asleep, so I didn’t get to speak to him!” I laughingly proclaimed to Ro when

River, meadow and wood converge around an old mill in Hampshire, where changing vistas create a bond between garden and landscape

This year marks the 625th anniversary of The Canterbury Tales author – and “father of English literature” – Geoffrey Chaucer’s death. He penned this classic, about a merry band of medieval pilgrims te

Neighbourhood know-how, people and places

RENOVATING AND EXTENDING A COMPACT FLINT COTTAGE MEANT A BIGGER HOME FOR PAUL AND LUCI STADEN, WITH THE ADDED JOY OF THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH DOWNS ON THEIR DOORSTEP

When poet and painter William Blake penned the words ‘England’s green and pleasant land’, he was referring to West Sussex, living in the little village of Felpham at the time. Sitting on England’s sou