Tales of the shire: a the lord of the rings game

For those who prefer not to follow the crowd, we reveal some of the best, but relatively undiscovered places to enjoy in the country’s chicest region

How do you build a hole in the ground with LEGO bricks? Especially if it’s not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, nor a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in… how do you build a hobbit-hole full of comfort?

Setting the stage Tanya Combrinck discovers how artists build tone and weave emotion into narratives

Ali Paice, co-founder of Bert’s Kitchen Garden

BACK in 1606, Lord North was unwell. His “lingering consumptive disorder” baffled his doctors. A stay in a remote hunting lodge cadged from a friend hadn’t helped, but on a country ride he came across

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