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Aldeburgh Memories: Crab and Tomato Linguine

Elle

Mar 28, 2022
2 min

Recipes

Aldeburgh Memories: Crab and Tomato Linguine

This simple crab linguine makes the most of delicious crab that is just coming into season here at the moment.

Sam

Feb 24, 2022
4 min

Sloe Suffolk

A House in the Round: Ickworth House

Ickworth House is a regular weekend retreat for us, for long country walks or just quick visits to the bookshop, followed by a cream tea.

Elle

Jan 29, 2022
4 min

Journal

B is for Brussels Sprouts

Is there any vegetable that divides opinion as much as the humble Brussels sprout? It certainly divides our household...

Sam

Dec 30, 2021
3 min

Journal

A Year of Suffolk Reading

We set ourselves five rural reads, and I soon fell in love with those books about the people who have lived and farmed here in Suffolk.

Over-Consumption: 3 Ways to Break the Habit

Elle

Dec 22, 2021
5 min

Sustainability

Over-Consumption: 3 Ways to Break the Habit

Over-consumption is not going to be an easy habit to break, but after the excess of Christmas, this is the right time to challenge myself.

Sam & Elle

Dec 11, 2021
5 min

Journal

Rural Reads V: The Fat of the Land

Today, the idea of the countryside being "an escape" seems very modern, but The Fat of the Land proves this urge is as old as the hills...

Sam

Nov 25, 2021
4 min

Journal

Fog and Ruins: A Walk to Rougham Hall

Between the trees ahead of us, the ruin of Rougham Hall materialised out of the mid-morning fog like a ghost.

Rural Reads IV: Adrian Bell's Corduroy Trilogy

Sam

Oct 29, 2021
4 min

Journal

Rural Reads IV: Adrian Bell's Corduroy Trilogy

Adrian Bell’s trilogy, beginning with Corduroy (1930), creates a world of quiet beauty that I'll carry with me for the rest of my life.

Sam & Elle

Sep 28, 2021
2 min

Journal

A Seasonal Shift: Autumn

Autumn is on its way. Already the colours of the trees are shifting to the golds and browns and yellows, and the leaves crunch underfoot.

Elle

Aug 23, 2021
3 min

Journal

Rural Reads III: Hollow Places

The third of our 5 rural reads: Christopher Hadley's detailed investigation into mythology and landscape in rural Hertfordshire.

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