Thursday, March 28, 2024
pump

The (giant) parish pump

Ian Hayes on an ingenious solution to canal water shortages. When “Printer” Heming, proprietor and editor of the Redditch Indicator, visited the upper Arrow Valley...
celebrating

Living the dream

A walk past Alvechurch Marina gave Philippa and Martine the idea of escaping the rat race. Just a few months later, writes Philippa, they had...
flowers

Planning for spring

Hannah Genders looks ahead to a garden full of colours. One of the best things about gardening is the fact that you are always planning...
garden

Festival of design

Hannah Genders marks a year of writing for The Village by revisiting Westonbirt Arboretum. Packing for my holidays, I suddenly realised that the deadline for...
bandolera

Autumn style guide

Sally Oldaker checks out the latest seasonal styles at Joolz in Barnt Green. If you thought the end of summer was going to mean the...
robert

Classic clothes

The idea of a real “gentlemen” may seem an old-fashioned concept these days, but there will always be a place for the traditional values...
kath

Death, taxes & back pain

It’s a funny old business where the more successful you are, the less people need to come and pay for your services. Yet this...
pool

Soaking away pain

How warm water can bring welcome relief. Hydrotherapy is sometimes assumed to be a treatment only available at luxury health spas, but the technique is...
horses

Fabulous Fjords step out for charity

Two unusual horses get ready to help emergency teams. Unless you’re a serious horse-lover, you may never have heard of the Norwegian Fjord. But two of these...
lucy

Lucy’s classical pitch

Mark Harrison is impressed by a singer who really can sing. . . In a world where a teenager miming into a headset microphone is classed...