St Bartholomew’s Day: feasts, fairs and ‘soiled doves’

Many years ago when I  first took on an allotment  on the Bartlemas site I knew fairly little about the Bartlemas hamlet which it curls around. But I recall being  surprised, moved and delighted to find myself  watering tomatoes and basil of an evening and hearing glorious music  and voices coming from the chapel on …

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Camping in an Elderflower orchard

Lord and Lady Muck enjoyed a rather wet camping trip in the Cotswolds near Stroud earlier in the month. The exact location, Thistledown, on the edge of Woodchester Park, is a charming campsite but also an unusual one. The campsite we were informed is on a site where the only Bronze Age storage pit in …

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