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I know we all live in an increasingly international world but the last ten days have been unusually so for the tree-planter. On my 75th...

A reader from overseas asked me to write something about the war in Africa. ‘Which war?’ I asked. Although there is trouble in the...

The internet tells us that the five most crime-ridden countries in the world are Haiti, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela and...

So you think it’s easy? Just stick in a few seeds and seedlings and wait a couple of decades. Well, it ain’t. We have been creating a...

Three years ago my wife’s step-father needed to have 24-hour care in the Cotswolds cottage where he and my mother-in-law lived. However...