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Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
High in the hills of Cumbria is a place called Alston Moor. It’s remote, hilly and, until 2002, didn’t have much to offer beyond scenery and fresh air. It certainly wouldn’t have been anybody’s first choice as a place to start a business.
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With Christmas looming, it might seem odd to add “selling a house” to your to-do list — especially if you have two daughters aged five and one. But Shelley Landale-Down knew exactly what she was doing when she and her husband Graeme, a designer, put their threebedroom house in Sevenoaks, Kent, up for sale earlier this month, after having had their offer accepted on a larger property...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Of late, the fashion world has been taken over by celebrities better known for other things: the supermodel Kate Moss has turned a manicured hand to producing a Topshop range, while the former Spice Girl Posh churns out unforgiving dresses for her Victoria Beckham Collection. For this year’s Liberty winter range, paintings by Ronnie Wood, the Stones guitarist and artist, are gracing T-shirts....
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Like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, you may soon be able to disappear down a hole in the garden and find yourself in a completely different world. One where you can either have total peace and quiet or make as much noise as you wish — and nobody will complain; where you can do anything you like, from watching the latest vampire movie to practising the trumpet.
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What it is: Fancy a home in the Peak District? Lane Side Barn is a single room, with a wooden ladder leading up to an attic on the upper floor, and an adjoining derelict barn. The auctioneer says it could be converted into a two-bed cottage. It’s a risky business, though: there is no planning permission and obtaining it could be difficult as the barn lies within a national park. Situated in Rowland,...
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* Once the leaves have faded, established clumps of rhubarb can be split to make more plants. Use a spade to divide a crown into segments, each with an obvious bud and plenty of root. Replant them 3ft apart, to the same depth, in a sheltered, sunny spot with well-drained, enriched soil. Water well and spread a thick mulch about them.
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With the sun hanging low and the days ever shorter, it is all too easy to retreat indoors and forget about what is going on in your borders. But, as shown by the new winter garden at Dunham Massey, an 18th-century estate near Altrincham in Cheshire, there are plenty of horticultural fireworks to lighten up the most leaden of skies.
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Memories of the times I spent at my grandparents’ house in Aberdeen are remarkably strong and wonderfully vivid. I was mesmerised by my grandparents — I idolised them. I lived in Aberdeen for three months as a baby, before my parents moved to Southampton, where my father worked as a shipbuilder. Yet it seemed that I spent a quarter of my childhood on the motorway driving to Scotland.
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Extending and remodelling a listed house in a north Edinburgh conservation area is bound to create planning problems. For , though, those headaches hurt all the more because they didn’t even know their Victorian villa was listed until their architect found out.
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Remember the fable of Chicken Licken? Not quite, perhaps. For the benefit of all the other readers who, like me, could never quite sustain interest to the punch line, I’ve had a look on Google, and here is a quick recap.
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We British may like to be beside the seaside, but when it comes to property investment, we just love to be beside a golf course — and if it happens to have a sea view, all the better. From the windswept icecaps of Greenland via the remote islands of southeast Asia to the American desert, there is no terrain on earth, it seems, where you can’t play golf. There are more than 32,000 golf courses...
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The Queen’s Speech, published last Wednesday, sets out the areas the government considers important in the year ahead. Britain’s impending serious housing shortage, one must conclude, is not a priority.
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I was a year old when we moved to 34 Nelson Road in Ilkley. It was a classic Yorkshire house, with sandstone walls and a slate roof, in a terrace of 12 or 14.
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Tartan and tweed have ensured that “Scottish” looks have had a place in interior design for decades. But now a new generation of designers north of the border is creating fabrics that are being taken up by renowned labels such as Ralph Lauren, Anna French and Liberty.
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When Jessica Hynes lost her job with a major bank in Canary Wharf last year, she decided it was time for a change of scene. She headed off to the Alps to work as a ski rep and rented out her flat. She boxed up most of her possessions and locked them away at a storage unit in North London.
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