I was lucky enough to have grown up a stone’s throw from Clapham Common, south London. There was a pond where you could catch tadpoles and sticklebacks to take home in a jam jar, a bandstand where chi

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When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung