The very nature of Middle Earth — how Tolkien s passion for the countryside inspired the Lord of the Rings
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The British art of hospitality is not dead yet – trust me, I m a pilgrim
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It’s strange, really, that one of our most beloved, lyrical books about English rivers should have been written in the dying embers of the Victorian era. When Kenneth Grahame was writing about a rat and a mole passing their days “simply messing about in boats” – inspired by the walks he took with his son by the River Thames and its tributaries in Berkshire – the waters that flowed past his house and on to London were a cesspool often blamed for the diseases that ripped through the city, characte