Articles published in category lifestyle

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May 2022
Classic Boat
Robert Simper has spent his life writing about boats and saving working vessels of the Thames estuary.
March 2022
Suffolk
It was probably a woman who organised the ship burial of an Anglo-Saxon king at Sutton Hoo. It was a woman who decided to excavate the site. Now a woman is leading the project to reconstruct the ship which changed our knowledge of British history.
March 2022
Classic Boat
Artist and book illustrator Angela Harding has a clinker sailing yacht and a love of the wilder coast.
January 2022
Suffolk
Printmaker Angela Harding's beautiful and evocative illustrations of the natural world, inspired by annual sailing trips around Suffolk's coast and rivers, are favourite choices for everything from book covers to journals, calendars and tea towels.
January 2022
Suffolk
Anna Greenland is a rising star in the organise grow-your-own firmament, although she admits her life currently is more 'Grand Designs' than 'Gardeners' World'.
September 2021
Suffolk
Aldeburgh-based illustrator Astra Taylor-Todd has forged a brilliant new career creating children's books inspired by her global travels and an 1,800 mile trek across America.
September 2021
Country Life
After years of nurturing a great garden, passing on the responsibility to younger custodians is easier if it's kept in the family. Visiting Attadale Gardens, Helmingham Hall and The Manor Hemingford Grey.
August 2021
Suffolk
What would you do if you were Prime Minister for a day? Amber Rudd is in no doubt. 'I would have an all female Cabinet. I'd fire all the men'.
August 2021
Suffolk
Why are women still taken less seriously than men? It's a question that's bugged veteran journalist Mary Ann Sieghart for the past 30 years.
July 2021
Suffolk
Why do statues have such power to unite and divide us? It's a question writer Bee Rowlatt will be exploring at this year's Primadonna Festival in Stowmarket.
June 2021
Suffolk
Why do certain places call to us? Why do we connect to some environments and not others? It's a topic gardening writer Anna Pavord will explore when she visits Suffolk, a county she has come to love.
June 2021
Suffolk
Has the Covid pandemic made scientists of us all? Evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins believes it may, at least, have increased our understanding of the importance of science and the world we live in.
June 2021
Suffolk
Felixstowe Book Festival patron Esther Freud's ninth novel imagines what might have happened had her mother's complicated life taken a more sinister path.
May 2021
Suffolk
Writer and journalist Simon Garfield, who has an eclectic range of book titles to his credit, turns his attention to our relationships with dogs.
May 2021
Suffolk
It's fun, it's original, it's energetic and possibly a bit mad...it's the Handlebards cycling to an outdoor venue hopefully near you.

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