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Weekend housecleaning
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Housecleaning can be dangerous to your relationship. Why men cant clean, and why women buy all those shoes
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Retirement – Lusciously Liberating or Death by Daytime TV?
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My gorgeous, handsome husband retired this week for the third time and it set me thinking about how you decide about retirement. Not so long ago it was all the rage to claim that you were going to retire at 35 or 50 but nowadays it seems that we’re all supposed to work until we’re 90 (or at least 65-70). But what is the right time to set off on that long dreamed about adventure?
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Terrified by a Chainsaw Juggler in Torquay, Devon
ExpandI attended Torquay's Riviera International Conference Centre's fabulous Showcase Dinner when 300 of Torbay's movers and shakers were invited to a special evening of food and fun. Great evening but the chainsaw juggler scared me rigid! Read on if you dare...
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How did Choosing the Devon Life Cover support Children in Need?
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Donna Baker joined the panel to help choose the Devon Life March issue cover today. Donna was the successful bidder for this prize that money can't buy with a substantial donation to Children in Need via the popular Judi Spiers morning programme on Radio Devon.
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Somerset Life looks at the work of the Crown Estate in Somerset.
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A brief insight into the work of The Crown Estate, which owns the Dunster Estate in Somerset
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Somerset Life meets… horticultural expert Peter Burks from The Garden Centre Group in Brent Knoll
People & Places
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Peter Burks offers an insight into his green-fingered life working with The Garden Centre Group
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Somerset Character, Sarah Ford meets Agnes Smalley, Taking the Reins
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Sarah Ford meets Agnes Smalley and hears about her long-standing dedication to Riding for the Disabled
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Let’s move to... Clifton. Bristol’s most prestigious and desirable suburb
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Diane Scully uncovers the multicoloured delights of Clifton, Bristol’s most prestigious and desirable suburb. Photos by Neville Stanikk
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Andrew Player, of the Crown Estate's Dunster Estate, shows Somerset Life the tallest tree in England
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Enjoy some of the jewels of the Dunster Estate, owned by the Crown Estate, including the tallest tree in England, Dunster Forest and views of Exmoor on one of the estate’s new waymarked trails. Andrew Player leads the way
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The Autumn Wedding Show at Westpoint - 9th & 10th October 2010
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Festive Feasting
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Set your kitchen aglow with the glory of Christmas cooking by trying these delicious seasonal recipes by Gideon Hitchin, a Senior Chef at the River Cottage HQ and Bath Canteen. Photography by Martyn Norsworthy
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The Goose is Getting Fat!
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How one young Somerset couple have created a successful specialist food business in time for Christmas. Words and photos by Rachel Lovell.
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Somerset Life discovers the origins of Somerset speciality food company, The Bay Tree
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How an encounter over a jar of homemade cucumber relish led to the founding of The Bay Tree, one of Britain's most successful specialty food companies, right here in Somerset.
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Rachel Curran meets a selection of Somerset's asparagus farmers
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It's local, it's in season and the stuff grown in Britain is hailed as the best in the world! Join Rachel Curran as she digs into the story behind Somerset's asparagus farmers.
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Frances Wood talks to Malcolm Rigby about her buffalo farm in Somerset
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Frances Wood talks to Malcolm Rigby about her decision to farm buffalo in Somerset and the extraordinary cheeses that have come about as a result.
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- Somerset Life meets… horticultural expert Peter Burks from The Garden Centre Group in Brent Knoll 04/02/2010
- Somerset Character, Sarah Ford meets Agnes Smalley, Taking the Reins 04/02/2010
- Let’s move to... Clifton. Bristol’s most prestigious and desirable suburb 04/02/2010
- Taking the Reigns, Somerset heroine of Riding for the Disabled Agnes Smalley 29/01/2010
- Wincanton, Somerset: Coaching Inns and Curiosities - Somerset Towns 20/01/2010
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- Somerset Life meets… horticultural expert Peter Burks from The Garden Centre Group in Brent Knoll 0 Star
- Somerset Life meets Richard Hollingbery, founder of Godminster Organic in Bruton 0 Star
- Wincanton, Somerset: Coaching Inns and Curiosities - Somerset Towns 0 Star
- Shepton Mallet in Somerset - Gateway to the Mendips 0 Star
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- Dr Alice Roberts takes time to talk to Somerset Life's Sara Ford about her life in Somerset 0
- Meet Somerset's Champion preserve-maker would like to see more of us get the taste for jam-making 0
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- Malcolm Rigby investigates Nunney Castle one of Somerset's most attractive but less well-known castl 0
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