This old barn has seen better days. Weather -beaten boards and thatching with a collection of old cart wheels leaning against the walls. Looking rather forgotten it stands, full of character, as a reminder of bygone days.
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A Very English Garden
With no Chelsea Flower Show this year, we must content ourselves with cottage garden dreams. Dream with me as we walk through the wonderful gardens at Great Dixter.
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Is traditional English country life vanishing today? We like to think some of the spirit of Old England still survives in our own village here.
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This is an ancient place, a remnant of old England, where ponies stop the traffic and donkeys look into shop windows, while pigs rummage in the woods in the acorn season. Things are different here! Past traditions still flourish, ‘commoners’ graze their animals overseen by a court of ‘verderers’ assisted by ‘agisters’! After 900 years, though still owned by the Crown, it’s now an open National Park.
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