Many moons ago, I wrote a piece that I thought was rather cool and very much of our time.
I expect that this may get me into a spot of bother, but why break the habit of a lifetime? And what's the point of a column if you don't call it as it is. So, let's hear it for the supermarkets, those much maligned monsters that do such wrong and so little right. The ones where we all go to shop. Because...
News that youth unemployment has rocketed beyond one million is as shocking as it is disturbing and unwelcome.
Greg Clark MP is a man with a plan. But not a very good one according to some sources, notably the National Trust, English Heritage and the Woodlands Trust.
At 2pm on 14 July many of the nursery stock industry's leading players will gather in deepest Hampshire to pay tribute to one of their own.
I read recently with some alarm that various councils round the country were "jacking up their allotment rents to claw back a few bob" due to the present squeeze on public expenditure. London boroughs appear especially fond of this trick, including some of the leafier and well-heeled postcodes. I'm...
Hands up those of you who love plants and gardens.
Fearing blandness in middle age, I thought I'd pep my column up a tad. You know, give it a bit more snap, crackle and pop.
Picture this. Saturday afternoon and a bus ride into town. Any town will do, but this one happened to be York. And rather splendid it looked, too.
May I begin by laying to rest a playful if unsettling rumour that Jeremy Clarkson is to be the new face of BBC Gardeners' World. It seems that some readers took this mischievous little tease rather too seriously, perhaps not realising that it was in fact 1 April when the "news" broke. While some observers...
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