Summer Solstice
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I've just started reading Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts , and though I'm only a few pages in, already I'm gripped. ...
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Bounder and Hillage
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It's not every day that you get a whole podcast dedicated to you, but my friend Matthew Watkins has done just that with episode 8 of hi...
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The Bagpipe Society

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I spent last weekend at the Blowout , the annual gathering of the Bagpipe Society . I was hoping to regale you with photos of what was an ex...
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Syd Arthur

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Can I let you into a secret? Really? OK then. Here goes. Barring the occasional song I've never liked indie-rock. I know, I know. We...
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Sunrise and the Rollright Fayre
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It's been a week parenthesized by festivals, one of which was quite unexpected. The weekend before last we went walking in North Oxfords...
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