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Reynard suspects that she has an audience, but it doesn't put her off her huntThere was a fine-looking vixen in the field behind our cottage this morning, quartering the long grass slowly, listening attentively, occasionally performing great leaps onto scurrying things that it desired for its break…

Beech roots and leaves at Danebury RingWe have been tasting a large number of wines of late, both at home and at various supplier tastings. Our brief has widened with the launch of The Daily Drinker, so that we are now keeping 'em peeled for yes, those wines that will rise, like loaves in the baking…

Joseph wants Isabella to participate in his line-dancing homework. She doesn't really like it, but capitulates under duressI've long been aware that there are heaps of superb wines imported into the UK that simply aren't selling. One can sympathise with the buyers of these wines. They're touring Ita…

The Paul Hamlyn Hall at the Royal Opera House not long before turning out timeIn the normal course of events, one has a couple of chances to have a look at a young Bordeaux vintage, both opportunities being organised by the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux. The first nibble of the bunch occurs in l…

Isabella Jane Bowes: the fruit of her mother's labour(s)I made a fundamental mistake in my circular email announcing the arrival of Baby Bowes Mk.2. When one's offspring show a determined unwillingness to enter the world, their arrival is greeted with such an outpouring of personal relief one imagin…