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BIRDS IN BOOKS: Madeleine Silver on the dodos, parrots and pelicans of our literary lives.
PROPER TOYS: Why wooden playthings are making a comeback.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Wildlife photographer Stephen Dalton shares his secrets.
HERBS: Mark Diacono on how to grow your own.
THE DANCING MARQUESS: A couldn't-make-it-up true tale.
MOURNE'S BEAUTY: Octavia Pollock on the Northern Irish landscape.
ARCHITECTURE: Carolside sits in the Scottish Borders, but connects to the USA.
FLOWER POWER: Hetty Lintell meets a dried florist.
MIGHTY MOTTOS: The British love of a pithy three-worder.
BRYAN'S GROUND: How snow helped a great garden restoration.
And much more besides.
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Can't you hear me S.O.S? Our treasured native dog breeds are at risk of extinctionDo you know your Kerry blue terrier from your Lancashire heeler? A simple lack of publicity is often to blame for some of the UK's native dog breeds flying dangerously low under-the-radar.
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'There are architects and architects, but only one ARCHITECT': Sir Edwin Lutyens and the wartime Chancellor who helped launch his stellar careerClive Aslet explores the relationship between Sir Edwin Lutyens and perhaps his most important private client, the politician and financier Reginald McKenna.
