When Nicola's husb&, Dominic, retires they decide not to spend their days finding hobbies to fill the time until Countdown is

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Details: Cornwall is a holiday paradise known in summer to countless thousands of families, who taste the delights of
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London's oldest enclosed Royal Park, first established in 1433, Greenwich Park

Includes:: several notable

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Photographer Rob Beighton presents a magnificent selection of photographs of North Cornwall through the seasons, an area that boasts some of the most spectacular scenery in the British Isles, coupled with the most romantic history & traditions. Among the key locations on the coast are St. Ives, voted Britain's Best Seaside Town by the Guardian in 2007; Newquay, now a major tourist & surfing destination; Padstow, a fishing village that has become a high-profile resort, yet maintains its yearly pagan festivals; Tintagel, with its dramatically situated thirteenth-century castle, said to be the birthplace of King Arthur; & Boscastle, a picturesque village with a dramatic natural harbour. ...

This is the seventh of Bill Birkett's prize-winning & widely praised photographic essays which portray, throughout the seasons, his love affair with the wildest & most impressive mountain areas of Britain. Snowdonia, the third largest National Park in Britain, is unsurpassed in its variety of landscape. It ranges through the high rugged mountains around Snowdon to the far-flung high groups of the Rhinogs, Arennigs & Arans, & the mighty Cadair Idris. It stretches some 85 kilometres
- from Conwy & its magnificent castle in the north to Aberdovey & its Roman road in the south. Snowdonia attracts over 6 million visitors annually. A leading centre for all who love the natural world & a major recreational area for climbers & walkers, it is not a region of complete wildness: adding to its character are the 27, 500 people who live & work there, in the heartland of Welsh-speaking Wales. Some 65 per cent of the inhabitants have Welsh as their first language, & have strong links with other peoples of the Atlantic coast, such as Cornwall, Brittany & the Basque region of Spain. At 1, 085 metres, Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales & higher than any mountain in England; its evocative Welsh name Eryri means 'place of the eagles'. Along with some of the most dramatic & magnificent scenery in Britain, Eryri contains a huge variety of habitats for animals, birds & plants. Between the sea & the mountains the region has 37 kilometres of coastline, with beaches cut by deep estuaries. Above the coast, glacially carved valleys fed by mountain lakes & streams support the remnants of broad-leaved woodlands of oak, ash, rowan & hazel. There are more National Nature Reserves in Eryri than in any other National Park in Britain.
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The New Forest's name is misleading, as it is neither new
- it was created nearly 900 years ago
- nor is it a forest, as it

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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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