Question? I have a Barbour liner that needs press studs replacing – can you help with a name and address? Answer DM Buttons offers a postal service for replacement press…
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Kit to covet for the New Year
After Christmas you may be overloaded with goodies but still missing that one thing that may have slipped through the gap or got lost on the list. We show you…
Sporting Diana: Georgie Stanford
My shooting career started not with a gun, but with a beating stick. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of a family shoot in Hampshire. the day was run…
Cold houses and how to stay warm this winter
I can’t exactly claim to have been brought up in cold houses. I realise that this is a distinctly non-U admission, so I need to clarify things a little. I…
Parlour Games For Christmas
On one cerebral festive occasion in an Irish castle I was invited to join in an incomprehensible word-play game with two Oxford undergraduates, then in full command of their intellectual…
The Goring: an excellent London stay
IT can be trying to find the right place to stay in London; too corporate, too poky, too faceless. But there is one place that seems to encourage a head…
The Duncombe Arms: a proper sporting pit stop
ON a dreich evening, what better than the lights of a decent pub, and even more so when that pub offers everything required of a proper sporting pit stop. Charming…
Six of the best countryside properties in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex
The properties currently on the market in the Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex countryside are wonderfully varied. From cosy cottages to grand Elizabethan manor houses there is much to look at…
How to keep a pointsettia flowering after Christmas
Q: At about this time every year I buy poinsettias to give as Christmas presents. Do they come in colours other than red or white and is it worth trying…
How to remove dog odour from your car
Looking for a simple way to remove dog odour from a car? Try generously sprinkling the area where the dog sits with bicarbonate of soda. Leave this for 20 to…