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Who wants to be scum anyway?

When John Little arrived at Hilldrop 35 years ago, the four-acre former plotland in Essex was little more than grass, clay and rubble. Today, it’s one of the UK’s most influential experimental gardens

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Once known for its lacemaking factories, Nottingham has reinvented itself as a centre of role-playing games. Games Workshop – maker of Warhammer 40,000 – is a multibillion-pound behemoth, and it sustains a whole ecosystem.

A grow-your-own renegade chases strange crops and smug flavours… only to discover that breaking garden rules doesn’t always taste as good as sticking to them l

Designer: Alessio Cavatore | Publisher: Mantic Games If, like me, your first ever miniature game involved rows and rows of tiny geckos, you may have been sad when Warhammer Fantasy Battles was discont