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“Enchanting” – Pevsner
April has been a good month here at Columbine Hall. We have just got our copy of the new Suffolk:West volume of The Buildings of England, compiled by Dr James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner ...
Two-way traffic
If you look on the new Invitation to View website, you will see a photograph of our most recent painting - a watercolour showing 13 of Hew’s antique keys in realistic detail ...
A Tidy House
The opening season is about to start on May 1. This means, after months of untidiness, we have to get the house organised for visitors. Actually, not that hard after several years’ practice but what gets out of hand are the books ...
Thanks Angus
Houses where people live, as opposed to the National Trust or statelies which never show you the real living rooms, change the whole time. We buy new things, we change the colours of the walls, we move the furniture around ...
Pictorial – and how
When we bought seed for the new flowery meadow to be sewn in the New Orchard, the website told us that the annual mixture of seeds would produce a brilliant show from mid-May to the cold weather of November ...
A Book for Cooks
ow about this? The Independent has voted my recent book, A Book for Cooks published this autumn by Merrell, one of the 50 best books out this season ...
Duck and Grouse
Columbine Hall has a very large chimney, built, we think, in Tudor times. Our builder once reckoned that it might be made up of no fewer than 10,000 small, hand-made bricks (this does seem unlikely.) ...
Spice, girls
I have just finished writing A Book for Cooks (published by Merrell this autumn). This is a list of my 101 favourite cookery books (I collect them.) ...
Flowery Meadows
This year we decided to plant a pictorial meadow - pictorial because, though it looks similar to a wild flower meadow, the flowers are not all wild. We were just in time ...