Cleve West is one of Britain's top garden designers with six RHS gold medals to his name & a high profile Daily Telegraph sponsored garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2011. He is also a true allotmenteer heading off to his plot whenever he can to get his hands dirty find peace & contemplate life & nature. His book is a joy to read humorous & humble full of practical commonsense & a belief in the values of community & sustainable living. There is plenty of advice here for plot holders
- often of the what-not-to-do sort & written from sorry experience
- & plenty of inspiration too in the creative ways that Cleve & his partner Christine make the most of their plot & enjoy the company of their fellow allotmenteers. There are easy to follow sections on Vegetables & Herbs Flowers & Fruit with recipes & troubleshooting tips as well as chapters on Community Creativity & Children. Amply illustrated with Cleve's own beautiful photographs fantastical drawings by Cleve & Christine & shots of the two of them at work taken by Cleve's cousin the garden photographer Derek St Romaine Our Plot is also a visual cornucopia. To watch a video of the launch of Our Plot click here

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Little Billy is the light of Pollys life
- its for her sons sake that she puts up with an unkind mother-in-law & an isolated farm.
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Create a lasting memento of those precious puppy moments! A puppy quickly squirms his wobbly way into your heart. You cant watch a puppy discovering his world bounding across the yard or sleeping oh so innocently without smiling. The ultimate keepsake for every puppy owner Our Puppys Baby Book" preserves those precious puppy moments. This updated edition of the 1961 Howell classic records your new ones first year
- with lots of space for snapshots of your new best friend. Accompanied by Robert Pilgrims timeless enchanting illustrations this one-of-a- kind tribute is essential for new puppy parents."
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The inside story of a thoroughly modern monarch told by the maker of ITV's upcoming documentary on Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee. This bestselling acclaimed biography of our Queen contains new material exclusive to the paperback edition. History has known no monarch like her. She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together & lived longer than any of them. She has known more historic figures than anyone alive
- from Churchill to Mandela de Gaulle to Obama. Now the distinguished royal writer Robert Hardman has been granted rare & privileged access to the world of Queen Elizabeth II to produce this enthralling new portrait of one of the most popular public figures on Earth. ' So much has changed around the Queen yet she has remained utterly true to herself ' says Hardman. ' There is this timeless quality about her. The more you talk to Her Majesty's family & to her people the more you look at her life the more impressive the scale of her achievement becomes.' Here is the inside story.
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History has known no monarch like her. She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together & lived longer than any of them. She has known more historic figures than anyone alive
- from Churchill to Mandela de Gaulle to Obama. Now the distinguished royal writer Robert Hardman has been granted rare & privileged access to the world of Queen Elizabeth II to produce this enthralling new portrait of one of the most popular public figures on Earth. Only one other monarch
- Victoria
- has celebrated a diamond jubilee. As our Queen marks sixty years on the throne Hardman travels with her around the country & the world. He meets Her Majesty's family her closest advisers & her prime ministers past & present. He follows the devoted team around her from her Lord Chamberlain to her footmen. Not only has Elizabeth II reigned through Britain's transformation from an imperial power to a multicultural multimedia nation but she has steered the Monarchy through more reforms in the last 25 years than in the previous century. Staff who would once have lived an existence straight out of Upstairs Downstairs or Downton Abbey now find themselves working in a surprisingly young & dynamic environment
- with some interesting perks. ' So much has changed around the Queen yet she has remained utterly true to herself ' says Hardman. ' There is this timeless quality about her. The more you talk to Her Majesty's family & to her people the more you look at her life the more impressive the scale of her achievement becomes.' Our Queen sits at the head of an ancient institution which remains simultaneously popular regal inclusive & relevant in a twenty-first-century world. It is neither down to luck nor longevity. It is down to the shrewd judgement of a thoroughly modern monarch with no small assistance from the longest-serving consort in history. Here is the inside story.



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How do we listen for the voice of God within the soundscapes of our lives & how do we find our own voice? Our lives are lived against the backdrop of an internal & external soundscape. The sounds noises & music with which we are surrounded in modern life have spiritual implications. There is also a soundtrack within us that plays constantly through memory dreams anxiety or thought. What are these soundscapes & how do we listen for the voice of God within them. How too do we find our own voice? These questions bring together the previous academic interest (history & sociology) & the present practical life (public ritual music & public speaking) of an author who is sensitive to the cadences of modern life & reflects on this through the prism of Scripture & the tradition. ...

Our Story is a gift journal available in two beautiful designs
- for my daughter & for my son
- inspiring parents to capture

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Our Story is a gift journal available in two beautiful designs
- for my daughter & for my son
- inspiring parents to capture

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Our Street is the perfect companion to Gilda ONeills bestselling My East End. This book focuses on the lives of Londoners in the East End during the Second World War. Showing the concerns hopes & fears of these so-called ordinary people Our Street illustrates these times by looking at the every day rituals which marked the patterns of daily life during WWII. It is an important book & also an affectionate record of an often fondly remembered more communal way of life that has all but disappeared. ...

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite & conviction Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism & to celebrate the innocent simple & religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance & Our Town" is both an affectionate portrait of American life & 'an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life'. " The Skin of our Teeth" deals with human survival in a 'comic strip' way & " The Matchmaker" is a hilarious farce which urges rebellion against all the constraints that deny a rich full life." ...