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Blog 163 - 24th July
Derbyshire Postponed!
No, we haven’t gone up in flames, but the next blog will not appear until 24th July. Many apologies
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Blog 160 - 5th June
Complex
Did you guess where we were?
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Blog 157 - 24th April
The Box Hill Work Out
Is landscape good for your fitness?
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Blog 154 - 13th March
Grow Your Own
Are allotments beautiful?
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Blog 151 - 30th January
The Importance of Eggs
Egg discrimination
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Blog 148 - 19th December
The Father Christmas Issue
Big boots
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Blog 145 - 7th November
Public Wealth or Public Health
Landscapes for therapy
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Blog 142 - 26th September
In search of dragons and damsels
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Blog 139 - 15th August
English Rural Life
Edwardian Berkshire - from Aubrey
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Blog 137 - 18th July
Jog on, jog on …
What makes a path accessible?
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Blog 134 - 6th June
Et in Arcadia Ego
Finding Arcadia
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Blog 131 - 25th April
Four Go Mad in Berlin
What to see in a 21st C European capital
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Blog 128 - 14th March
Window dressing
Bath illustrated
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Blog 125 - 2nd Feb
Flood Alert
What do Calgary and Kerala have in common?
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Advent Calendar Part 2
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Blog 121 - 23rd Nov
Trails and Rails
Exploring the Santa Fe Trail
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Blog 118 - 12th Oct
Pastizzu
A wonder of Corsica
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Blog 115 - 31st August
Free and Easy
Where to find the best blackberries
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Blog 112 - 20th July
Boots, Boats, Buses and Trains
A tale of two ‘National car Parks’
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Blog 109 - 8th June
Postcards from Italy
Climate change and tourism - tricky bedfellows
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Blog 106 - 27th April
Still Tumbling In
The good and bad of coastal erosion
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Blog 103 - 16th March
Y’Got Mail
Don’t ignore the humble letter box
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Blog 100 - 2nd February
Centenary Serendipity
Another place to live!
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Blog 97 - 20th Dec
Christmas Designs
The Christmas card is alive and haring about
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Blog 94 - 10th Nov
Creel House Trials
Unexpected consequences
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Blog 91 - 29th Sept
What did the Russians ever do for us?
An independent Kyrgyzstan
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Blog 88 - 18th August
No Fixed Address
Kyrgyzstan’s nomadic legacy
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Blog 85 - 7th July
Ophelia’s Brook
From Shakespeare via Millais to the 20th century
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Blog 82 - 26th May
Albanian Odyssey
An angular experience
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Blog 79 - 28th April
Rewilding
What is it and why is it important?
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Blog 76 - 7th April
The Pool of London
An historical transect
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Blog 73 - 17th March
Collateral consequences
The Brown Hart Gardens
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Blog 70 - 24th February
Lighthouse Lizard
Wreckers, lighthouses and holiday lets
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Blog 67 - 3rd February
Perce-Neige
Snowdrop imagery and Gatton Park
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Blog 64 - 13th January
Mining the Past
Hadrian’s Wall and the legacy of mining
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Blog 61 - 23rd Dec
It’s a Christmas Wrap
Designer or eco-warrior?
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Blog 58 - 2nd Dec
Final Offa
The walk to the coast
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Blog 55 - 11th November
Smoke Signals
The history of a railway icon
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Blog 52 - 21st October
Arch 42
A way through the divide
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Blog 49 - 30th Sept
Chalking up the Hampshire Downs
Gliding over Hampshire Hills
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Blog 46 - 9th September
A Contested Landscape 2
Enclosure!
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Blog 43 - 19th August
Can it be a Fair COP?
Climate Change
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Blog 40 - 29th July
The curse of the wheelie bin
and the urban designers’ challenge
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Blog 37 - 8th July
The History Hedge
Nonsuch like it
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Blog 34 - 17th June
A Flying Visit
Ospreys and beavers
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Blog 31 - 27th May
The Darling Buds
How has a late spring impacted on a wetland nature reserve?
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Blog 28 - 6th May
A good Grouse?
Climate Change in the Peak District
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Blog 25 - 15th April
Home Ground
A landscape of Identity or Nostalgia?
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Blog 22 - 25th March
Life and Death on the Fringe
From agriculture to affluence
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Blog 19 - 4th March 2021
Walking the Line
Butterfly Conservation
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Blog 16 - 11th February 2021
‘The North Wind Doth Blow’
Snow on the Moors
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Blog 163 - 24th July
Summer Guide to Derbyshire
The Dark Peak
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Blog 161 - 19th June
Geometry
Monastery Maths
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Blog 158 - 8th May
Sunshine and Shadows
An artist’s Terroir
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Blog 155 - 27th March
Grown by Others
Is the Stately Home kitchen garden beautiful?
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Blog 152 - 13th February
Camberwell Beauty
Abercrombie’s heritage
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Blog 149 - 2nd January
New Year Resolutions
Landscape and promises
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Blog 146 - 21st November
Mallorca/Majorca
Trains in Spain
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Blog 143 - 10th October
Community, Landscape and Art
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Blog 140 - 29th August
Open Air Theatre
Drama in a Sussex Garden
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Blog 138 - 1st August
Vox and Socks
How to travel the world in a weekend.
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Blog 135 - 20th June
Weedy Tendencies
Is this a weed?
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Blog 132 - 9th May
Time for Tea
A Japanese ceremony in an English garden
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Blog 129 - 28th March
‘Pa was a fool’
How winning the west was postponed for a while
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Blog 126 - 15th Feb
SAD
Why does spring make us so depressed?
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Blog 123 - 4th Jan
Through the Looking Glass
Happy New Year
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Advent Calendar Part 1
Blog 119 - 26th Oct
The Glory of the Garden
Creating a show garden
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Blog 116 - 14th Sept
August
Where to go when you stay at home
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Blog 113 - 3rd August
DLR
A confusing tale of two railways
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Blog 110 - 22nd June
Postcards from Sicily
English gardens and Sicilian heads
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Blog 107 - 11th April
Here Be Dragons
National symbols - how well do they represent us?
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Blog 104 - 30th March
Naval Gazing
Would Nelson have expected more?
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Blog 101 - 16th February
Brunel’s Mid-Point
A place to work
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Blog 95 - 24th Nov
Mists and mellow fruitfulness
Welsh orchard conservationn
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Blog 92 - 13th Oct
Who Lives Here?
What our houses do or don’t say about us
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Blog 89 - 1st Sept
Building History
Historic buildings in Kyrgyzstan
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Blog 86 - 21st July
Wall Flowers …
… are not all vertical
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Blog 83 - 9th June
Rectangular Agriculture
A not so angular experience
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Blog 80 - 5th May
Change of Management
A (hopefully) post pandemic landscape
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Blog 77 - 14th April
White Stuff
When can an industrial landscape become romantic?
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Blog 74 - 24th March
Only Lyon
The quirky side of a large French city
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Blog 71 - 3rd March
Tinners
The ‘romance’ of the Cornish tin mines
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Blog 68 - 10th February
Downing or Drowning?
What does the Downing Street Garden tell us?
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Blog 65 - 20th January
Common History
The history of a Common
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Blog 62 - 30th Dec
2022 - A New Way?
What are our options?
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Blog 59 - 9th December
Salt and Society
Saltaire - philanthropy or ego?
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Blog 56 - 18th November
Another Offa
Further ramblings on the Dyke
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Blog 53 - 28th October
Would the Tudors have switched off the lights?
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Blog 50 - 7th Oct
Big House on the Prairies
American Embassy Garden
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Blog 47 - 16th September
A landscape of Ill Health
What is our environment at times of illness?
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Blog 44 - 26th August
Imberbus
Conservation and the MOD
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Blog 41 - 5th August
Designed in Dundee
Transport, television and tourism
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Blog 38 - 15th July
Terroir has gone to the allotment
and is cooking with gooseberries
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Blog 35 - 24th June
Bute-ified
The unofficial landscape of Caerphilly Castle
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Blog 32 - 3rd June
I Spy
Reading the View
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Blog 29 - 13th May
Slow Ways
Slow travel - a new approach to walking in Britain
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Blog 26 - 22nd April
An Uproar of Amazingness
Thornton Heath Regeneration
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Blog 23 - 1st April
Chilly Finger'd Spring
A journey from winter solstice to vernal equinox
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Blog 20 - 11th March
Heavenly Bodies
A landscape to sell flats?
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Coal Porter
The impact of Coal
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Blog 162 - 3rd July
The first Brexit
How early Brexit influenced our wildlife
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Blog 159 - 22nd May
Where do you think we are?
We’re travelling again
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Blog 156 - 10th April
Science, Art or Crusade?
Somerset House on ‘Soil’
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Blog 153 - 27th February
Camberwell Quilting
Explosions of history
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Blog 150 - 16th January
The Ladybird Book of Derbyshire - Winter
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Blog 147 - 5th December
Make Space for Children
Childhood
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Blog 144 - 24th October
The Big Deal
Climate change for real?
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Blog 141 - 12th September
Seasonal Change
What is a season?
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Blog 136 - 4th July
Ridgeways
Walking on the edge of the Sky
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Blog 133 - 23rd May
The Ecology of Archaeology
How to show off when looking at prehistory
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Blog 130 - 11th April
Does colour matter?
Liberty grey is unconvincing
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Blog 127 - 29th Feb
Kerala Case study
Indian enigmas from the south
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Blog 124 - 18th Jan
River Hacks
Sheffield rain gardens
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Blog 122 - 7th December
The Rock Island Line
Railroads and Folk Music
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Blog 120 - 9th Nov
Elemental Chicago
How do you describe Chicago?
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Blog 117 - 28th Sept
Ashby dans la Foret
An exemplar of English history and geography
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Blog 114 - 17th August
Plant Idents
Terroir tests some apps
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Blog 108 - 25th April
Here Be Dragons II
National symbols - myth or reality?
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Blog 105 - 13th April
Tumbling-In
Bricks and the vernacular
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Blog 102 - 16th March
Dear Fencing
An expensive hobby
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Blog 99 - 19th Jan
Brunel’s Mid-Point
A place to live
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Blog 96 - 8th Dec
Harvest Home
How to make the best apple juice
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Blog 93 - 27th Oct
The Creel House
Recreating a lost building
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Blog 90 - 15th Sept
Live On
The future of Monarchy and Planet
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Blog 87 - 4th August
The Bin
Why we HAVE to take action against single-use plastics
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Blog 84 - 23rd June
Serendipity
Quirky Albania
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Blog 81 - 12th May
Sand Pit
What do you do with a hole in the ground?
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Blog 78 - 21st April
Walls …
… have ears and can tell stories
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Blog 75 - 31st March
A Passage Through Lyon
Can you know a town through Tourism?
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Blog 72 - 10th March
Support Ukraine
This title says it all
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Blog 69 - 17th February
Memorial Landscapes
Where to put London’s Holocaust Memorial?
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Blog 66 - 27th January
Heaven or Hell
A puzzling village
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Blog 63 - 6th January
The Boxing Day Walk
How do we manage our privacy?
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Blog 60 - 16th December
Briefly Bradford
Migration and architecture
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Blog 57 - 25th November
Stunning Offa
Enter a different world
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Blog 54 - 4th November
An Autumnal Jumble
A metaphor for COP 26
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Blog 51 - 14th October
A Residential Power House
The new Battersea Power Station
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Blog 48 - 23rd September
South Downs Way
Walking the Hampshire Downs
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Blog 45 - 2nd Sept
A Contested Landscape
A Shropshire Family History
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Blog 42 - 12th August
History Hurts
Sugar and Slate
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Blog 39 - 22th July
Terroir is still at the allotment
The big rhubarb debate
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Blog 36 - 1st July
Midsummer
A very British Story
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Blog 33 - 9th June
The Brylcreem Girls
Elephant Conservation in Chelsea
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Blog 30 - 20th May
Isabella Slade
Sumptious azalea colour in Richmond Park
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Blog 27 - 29th April
Pond Life
Open Space in Thornton Heath
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Blog 24 - 8th April
The Art of Lockdown
Life enhancing art
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Blog 21 - 18th March
Privet Land
A history of the Privet hedge
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Blog 18 - 25th February 2021
Cynefin
The language of Welsh rural architecture
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Blog 13 - 21st January 2021
More or Less Poverty?
Have we still not moved?
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Blog 10 - 31st December
There is Always Another Door
Looking Out to 2021
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Blog 14 - 28th January 2021
Katteken and Gennels
Spring cheer and local words
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Blog 11 - 7th January 2021
Water Works
Lockdown 3 - the importane of open space
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Blog 15 - 3rd February 2021
Vin de Terroir
The landscape of Wine
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Booth Poverty Maps
Blog 12 - 14th January 2021
The Poverty Maps
Have we moved on at all?
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Blog 7 - 10th December 2020
Redhill and the Railways
Growth of a home county railway town
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Blog 8 - 17th December
The Garden Politic
Is Gardening political?
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Blog 9 - 24th December
Season’s Greetings
Global Christmas ‘planting’
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Blog 4 - 19th November 2020
National Treasures - our long distance footpaths
Do we really deserve them?
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Blog5 - 26th November 2020
A Good Offa?
From political barrier to mythic trek - Offa’s Dyke Path
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Blog 6 - 3rd December 2020
More on Offa
Kilvert, Housman and the Hay Festival - the inspiring Offa
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Blog 1 - 29 October 2020
Moorish Magic - A lockdown landscape in summer
Deep breathing in the Surrey urban fringe
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BLOG 2 - 5 November 2020
Yukon Breakup - The story of Klondike Mill
An exploration of the Gwydir Forest’s derelict mining landscape. Betws-y-Coed, Conwy.
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Blog 3 - 12 November 2020
Red Robin Letter - is Photinia x fraseri taking over our townscapes?
A ‘survey’ of new build residential landscapes
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