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• Pastures new: a family farmstay in Austrian Tirol

  21-04-2019 11:30
  Our writer thinks her family are not really ‘animal people’ but a stay on an organic farm, with rabbits, ponies, llamas and hens, could just change her mindHay fever. Animal allergies. Arachnophobia. Sensitive skin. I should have paid more attention to my personal hindrances before saying that I liked the sound of sleeping in the hay barn at Wolfseggstall, a small organic farm in Austria’s eastern Tirol. It looked so winsomely appealing on the tourist board website, with images
  
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• 10 beautiful garden getaways in the UK

  21-04-2019 08:00
  These splendid hotels and cottages sit in some of the country’s finest gardens ands estates, offering relaxation and a riot of colourBucolic bliss awaits at Barnsley House hotel in Cirencester. Redesigned by Rosemary Verey in the 1950s, its 11 acres combine formal gardens, clipped yews, rock roses and mixed borders with an ornamental fruit and vegetable garden that gives on to wild meadows. The laburnum walk is Barnsley’s showstopper, but look out, too, for the frog fountain and, at
  
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• Recipes for Sunday roast leftovers | Nigel Slater

  21-04-2019 07:00
  Roast chicken and lamb from Sunday lunch are the bones for supper on MondayOnce the table has been cleared and the dishwasher stacked, I collect the bones, tear off the remaining meat, and consider tomorrow’s dinner. I cherish the leftovers of Sunday lunch. The roasted bones, golden jelly and roasting juices left behind are as useful as the meat itself. It is easiest to separate everything while it is still slightly warm, before they end up in the fridge. Every bit will go towards a soup o
  
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• My oldest friend is invading my space – now even at work | Dear Mariella

  21-04-2019 07:00
  She’s crossing lines and you need to let her know, says Mariella Frostrup. It’s high time you two talkedThe dilemma I have a good friend I have known since before I could walk. We were at school and college together and share many friends. Our parents and older siblings are friends, too. We also lived together for years, although I moved out recently. This woman is charming, charismatic, very clever and funny. She lights up a room. But over the past few years, I have found her increa
  
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