Posted by IngridK on August 22, 2010
As a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, I receive a monthly magazine called The Garden. It’s full of horticultural wisdom and a fantastic letters page. A couple of years ago, there was a strongly worded letter condemning the ‘free for all’ that botanical gardens have become. Instead of places for quiet contemplation and the [...]
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Posted by IngridK on August 2, 2010
We’re regular visitors to Richmond Park, but until yesterday we’d never visited Bushy Park – the other walled royal park, this one a little further to the south and west and across the street from Hampton Court, which must have been very convenient for Henry VIII when he used it as a hunting ground. It’s [...]
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Posted by IngridK on July 25, 2010
It’s “Mad about machines” week at the RHS Wisley botanical gardens. We took the boy down today to see a vintage tractor parade, ride in a trailer pulled by a tractor and we queued for half an hour just so he could sit in the cab of a John Deere. I like tractors as much [...]
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Posted by IngridK on August 18, 2009
Our local pub has had many incarnations. When we first moved to the area it was a neglected outpost of a national chain and called the Freedom and Firkin. As a foreigner, I didn’t quite understand the 70s tv allusion to the sit-com Citizen Smith which was set in the local area. A colleague kept [...]
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