Stretching along the bordering counties with England ? Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire & Monmouthshire ? the Welsh Marches are made up of a mixture of mountains & moorlands, farms & wooded river valleys. The densest concentration of motte-&-bailey castles anywhere in England or Wales is to be found in this fine walking territory. ...

In A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess she describes the age-old cycles of a farming year & the constant challenges the family faces, from being cut off in winter to tending their flock on some of Yorkshires highest, bleakest moors
- land so inaccessible that in places it can only be reached on foot.

Writing with her trademark warmth & humour, Amanda takes us into her life as nine-year-old Miles gets his first flock, Reuben takes up the flugelhorn & she gives birth to a new baby girl. She is touched by the epic two-day journey of a mother sheep determined to find her lamb & gives a new home to an ageing & neglected horse.

Meanwhile Clive is almost arrested on a midnight stakeout to catch a sheep-worrying dog & becomes the object of affection for a randy young bull.

Funny, poignant & charming, A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess is a must for anyone interested in the countryside & those who farm it.

This paperback book has 344 pages & measures: 19.6 x 13 x 2cm








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Details: The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a showcase for some of the finest limestone scenery in Europe. Covering
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Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job
- & finds out what the French are really like. Less quaint
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Another year in cycling's inexorable rise. The 2012 Tour de France & the Olympic Games in London has catapulted Bradley Wiggins & several track stars into limelight
- & a million 'mamils' (middle aged men in lycra) will be choking up the country lanes of Britain & Europe every Sunday morning. This book is unashamedly written with love for the mamil. The mamil dreams of the romance of the great pro races such as Paris-Roubaix plus weekends away in Italy & France, not to mention the home-grown routes in Wales & Scotl&. He wants to walk back into work on Monday morning & announce with a flourish: " This time yesterday morning, I was half-way up Alpe d' Huez." Taking in 12 cycling challenges, one a month for a year, across Britain & northern & southern Europe, this beautiful book chronicles the experiences of two mamils & looks at what it takes to tackle some of the most iconic events in cycling. With breathtaking photography & lively text that conveys exactly how it feels to be by turns frozen, baked, lost, exhausted but utterly exhilarated & inspired this is a book that will resonate with any aspiring road rat.
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Details: Originally published in 1862 as Everybodys Pudding Book, this delightful period cookbook offers delicious,
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Details: The national park of Exmoor straddles the counties of Somerset & Devon in the south west of Engl&. Covering over
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Many people have trouble focusing the right sort of thought-power into connecting with angels. The struggle of everyday life gets in the way, they feel self conscious & unsure of themselves, afraid that it's all in their head, & their brains need a more logical & structured approach to the subject in order to succeed. If only they could text or email their angel! Of course, this isn't possible, but there are lots of practical steps that can help make the process easier & more rewarding. Covering one month at a time, A Year with the Angels gives the reader a strategy to follow & pinpoints the information people need to tame their modern-day, left-centred brains & 'get their heads around' a very real & lasting connection with the angels. ...

Warm & heartfelt stories & amusing anecdotes from the life of a vet in God's own county.

Julian Norton has been a vet

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This book features killer cupcakes that taste bloody good! After being banished for so long to the land of the pretty & identical, the domestic & the twee, cupcakes are biting back. Here, Lily Vanilli shows how you can take inspiration from anywhere
- insects, roadkill, zombies
- & recreate it in cake, but always with a delicious result. This book is an introduction to making cakes that look weird, ugly & even grotesque
- but that taste divine! There are amazing materials for making edible sculptures & hundreds of things you can do with natural ingredients. Give guests a shock with revoltingly realistic Marzipan Beetles, or add a crunch to your desserts with Morbid Meringue Bones, dipped in raspberry blood sauce. Try out a black cherry Dracula's Bite red velvet cupcake with cream cheese, eat your way through heavenly Fallen Angel Cakes or go for indulgent & truly dark chocolate Devil's Delight Cupcakes. If Ozzy Osbourne made cupcakes, these are the ones he'd want to eat.


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