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Life at nature’s pace
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Life at nature’s pace
Dear reader...
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LOWING FIRES, WARMING
food, bright berries, crunching
leaves underfoot – what is not to
love about this time of year? I
may no longer be able to go outside
without a coat and gloves, but there is still
a lot to enjoy as the season turns.
This is the time when I get back into
crafting mode, finishing off all the projects
I started last winter, but put on one side as
the warmer weather arrived and the
outdoors called. The problem now is
deciding which one to do first, and to stop
myself from starting something new. Visits to the wool shop are
always a problem. I pop in for a crochet hook or a circular needle
and end up entranced by the beautiful colours and yarns on offer.
This year, I’ve promised myself I will be more disciplined, but I
suspect this may be easier to say than to do, like many things.
Despite the change of the season, the days are often bright and
sunny, albeit with a crisp nip to the air. But once the sun has gone
down, the nights are chilly. This is soon dealt with by drawing the
curtains that have stayed open all summer, and lighting the fire.
The cat curls up in front of the flames, a perfect picture of
contentment, and the outside world is easily forgotten.
Hilary Scott
Editor
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Contents
November / December 2017
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In the garden In the kitchen Craft
26 The garden in November and 46 Versatile Yorkshire puds 20 Purple frosted berries
December
50 Sticky sweet toffee 69 Baking bread outdoors
30 Colourful crab apples
58 Regional & Seasonal: 74 A late rose cushion
38 Enjoying nature’s larder The Perch
76 New use for old ties
60 Buttery crumpets
78 Crafting miniature landscapes
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Country matters History and heritage Regulars
10 Winter’s wild winds 92 Tiny villages nestled under cliffs 6 Readers’ letters
62 Cutting perfect kindling 102 Leather tanning the traditional way 8 Our LandScape
84 Scotland’s lost forest 114 In the steps of a poet 36 In the garden
108 Keeping dogs warm 44 Subscription offer
56 In the kitchen
72 In the home
120 UK events
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Readers’ Letters
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Sharing your news and views of country life
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Importance of traditions
Star Letter I felt I had to congratulate LandScape reader
Marion Perkins on her absolutely beautiful cake
which she had decorated for her daughter’s
wedding (Letters, July/August 2017 issue). What a
Woodland embrace lovely idea, and what a very good artist she is.
The mini article about kissing gates Aside from that, may I congratulate you for
(Sept/Oct 2017 issue) made me upholding our ‘Britishness’ by always using
smile. I love walking in the imperial sizes first, with metric in brackets, and
countryside, and my other love is also using first names in articles and not just
photography – perfectly paired surnames. I am sure I am not the only reader
hobbies – and I have many who genuinely appreciates these things.
photographs of all sorts of gates. Pamela M Brown, by email
While I understand the real reason for
kissing gates, it is also a wonderful
excuse to share a kiss in the
countryside. I am attaching a
photograph I took while walking in the
village of Tarrington, Herefordshire.
Janet Dawson, Cumbria
Hebes play a starring role
During a recent visit to France, I helped my friend
make table decorations for her husband’s 60th Welcome feast for birds
birthday party. Inspired by your always excellent Our blackbird visitors are making short work of
craft articles, we reused some bottles from the their daily apple treat. The two apple halves are
recycling and set about making posies from the cored and then threaded onto bamboo sticks
flowers thereabouts. After seeing your article on driven firmly into the ground. This prevents the
Hebe speciosa, (Sept/Oct 2017 issue) we made blackbirds from tossing them around and keeps
sure to include them in our arrangements, and the surfaces clean and dirt-free. They kindly leave
they went down a storm. the hollowed-out skins for me to add to my
Elizabeth Glennon, Nottinghamshire compost heap.
Heather Espley, Worcestershire
Reaping a colourful reward
I harvested some agapanthus seed pods from my
mother’s garden last year and planted the seeds
in the spring. They are now flowering beautifully
in pots in my garden!
Helena Coles, Hampshire
The wonder of nature
I’ve often wondered why we grow plants, and
wrote this musing on the subject:
We grow plants for many reasons,
To please the eye, or to placate the soul, A chorus line of keys
To challenge the elements, or to challenge our I loved the idea of dancing keys in my garden (In
patience. For novelty or for nostalgia. the garden, July/Aug 2017 issue), so when I
But mostly for the sheer joy of seeing things grow. found an old bunch, I did this. Hope you like it.
Tina C Vowles, Gloucestershire Pauline Naylor, by email
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Our LandScape
The best of the season to inspire and admire
A FIERY SPECTACLE
SKILLS OF
For nearly 160 years, a Northumberland village has held a spectacular fire
THE PAST
festival. On New Year’s Eve, a procession of guisers in fancy dress parades
through Allendale, bearing aloft half-barrels filled with tar and flames.
The Tar Bar’l or barrel festival is believed to have started in 1858, although Across Britain, skilled men and women continue to practise traditional
some think it dates back to the Middle Ages. The guisers, a name which crafts that have survived the passage of time. Photographer Rob Scott
possibly originates from disguisers, are 45 local men born in the Allen and writer Anthony Burton travelled from Scotland to Cornwall to capture
Valleys. Many pass the role down the family. some of these processes taking place. From a clock maker to a miner,
Only one woman, Vesta Peart, has ever carried a barrel. In the mid-1950s, and a silversmith to a pub sign painter, Crafted in Britain is a beautiful
she was allowed to join in as a thank-you for creating a large number of homage to how the past is remaining relevant in the present.
costumes for the guisers. Many of these costumes are still worn today. Crafted in Britain £22.50, www.bloomsbury.com
At 11.30pm, torches are lit and the barrels ignited. Each guiser lifts a
flaming barrel onto the top of his head, holding it steady with protective
gloves, and falls in behind the band. They march to the village centre,
where at midnight the Bar’l fire is ignited using the burning barrels.
WINTER VISIT
The distinctive redwing, with its creamy strip above the eye and
orange-red flank patches, is flying in to spend the winter in Britain.
Up to 1 million arrive from colder climes such as Iceland or
Russia, flying by night in loose flocks. As they fly, they make thin,
plaintive whistles as contact calls. They rarely visit gardens, my.
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CELEBRATING
THE HERRING
Every year in November, the tiny fishing village of Clovelly
in North Devon holds its annual Herring Festival.
The village once depended on the harvest of herring, with
records going back over 400 years. In 1749, there were
100 herring boats in the port. When fishing was good,
9,000 herring could be landed at one time. Today, only
two herring fishermen remain, who still employ sustainable
fishing methods using drift nets and long lines.
There will be the chance to taste herring dishes, including
kippers, and demonstrations of net making and flax
processing. This year’s event is on 18 November.
TIME TO REMEMBER
The summit of rugged Castle Crag in the Lake District’s Borrowdale
is the scene of an annual Remembrance Day service. Walkers climb
the 950ft (290m) high fell to hold the two minutes’ silence in front
of a plaque marking the deaths of local men in the First World War.
The first name on the plaque, in fact, is that of John Hamer, of the
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. 2nd Lt Hamer was a Londoner, killed
in action on 22 March, 1918. Castle Crag was a favourite spot for the
Hamer family, who bought it to donate to the National Trust in his
memory. At the suggestion of Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, a founder
member of the Trust, the dedication plaque also included the names SHADES OF NATURE
of the 10 men from Borrowdale.
Working from a garden studio at her home in
Lancashire, artist Carole Barnes Linkman is inspired
by her love of natural forms. This green and copper
coloured ivy leaf is made from copper and clay. It is
suspended from a wire-wrapped copper tube, which
contrasts with the green and amber coloured beads.
Ivy leaf necklace £10,
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WILD WINDS
OF WINTER
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