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Hedgehogs disappear from garden as heat and dwindling food take their toll (opens the original)
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For the first time in more years than I care to remember, our garden is bereft of hedgehogs, a star attraction, whose nightly jaunts around our lawn and borders was always a welcome sight. I’ve always had a fascination for hedgehogs. When no more than seven or eight, I tried to nurse an injured hedgehog back to health. But my inadequate ministrations failed to save the patient, who was placed inside my broken wooden toy lorry for a coffin, and buried in the back garden with much ceremony. Hedgeh
Fragments from the 19th century diary of a farmer's wife (opens the original)
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The following extracts are taken from the surviving pages of the diaries of Kezia Hayward when she lived at Hill Farm in Heckingham near Loddon during the latter half of the 19th century. Throughout her writings, Kezia displays remarkable fortitude, patience and diligence reflecting her deep-seated Christianity that was always foremost in her thoughts. The daughter of William and Elizabeth Hylton, Kezia was born in Strumpshaw on October 20, 1778. Hill Farm, Heckingham. (Image: Supplied) In 1798,
The harsh life of the average rating in Nelson's navy (opens the original)
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"We always are ready: steady, boys, steady! The Battle of Trafalgar (1805). Nelson collapses after being shot by a sniper. (Image: Supplied) "We’ll fight and we’ll conquer again and again." Life on the rolling deep and flashing brine was anything but plain sailing in Nelson's time when Britannia waged constant battle with her sabre-rattling neighbours. If not duelling with the Dutch, she was feuding with the French or sparring with the Spanish to retain her supremacy upon the azure main. Britann
The story of the thorn apple - nature's forbidden fruit (opens the original)
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Not so long ago, I was fortunate to discover a thorn apple (Datura stramonium) growing in the hedgerow by our local allotment. It was instantly recognisable from its foul smell, large jagged leaves, and the prickly green seed pods which looked like a particularly vicious species of conker. The plant is related to the nightshade family, and like all members of the family, it is poisonous and should be treated with appropriate caution. In the crime story, Thornapple, by Ruth Rendell, a young boy a
Inside the National Trust mansion with its own secret library (opens the original)
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Like the ghost of Ann Boleyn, most who visit Blickling Hall usually desire to return again and again. Blickling is one of the National Trust's finest Jacobean mansions, which also houses the Trust's largest library of 12,500 books that line the shelves of the library beneath the palatial plasterwork of the Long Gallery ceiling. There was never a better setting for a more prized collection. By far the largest and most significant within the National Trust, it was Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of
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