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November 2024

K is for Kites
A wildlife success story, or are the ubiquitous circling kites on the lookout for food becoming an aerial nuisance?
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J is for James
What are the ingredients for a good mystery? Notoriety, a mysterious death, royalty and religion, international travel and a symbol that is now…
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I is for Independents
Our independent producers, retailers, pubs and museums are too often celebrated as our best kept secret. That’s just bonkers, our best kept secret must…
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October 2024

H is for Halloween
Ghosts and Spirits are abroad on Samhain eve and the Chilterns has its fair share of hammer horror and headless horsemen, a ghostly drummer boy and…
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G is for the Goring Gap
Two villages face off across the River Thames, rivalries friendly, but one outdid the other when William Turner chose to paint Goring mill and church.
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A feast from the Forest
Along the footpaths, usually looking for fungi , this is my favourite micro season when you’ll find me in the forest with Leo, who will emerge with a…
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E is for Ewelme
Every village needs a chalk stream flowing through it, a dreamy manor house, wobbly cottages, almshouses, a red-brick school and a Grande Dame. Ewelme…
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D is for Discovery
There are so many topics, types and tips beginning with the letter D, I am going to see how many I can include in just one article. I hope you have as…
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September 2024

Chilterns Chalk
The chalk under our feet determines so much of what grows in the downland where you could find over 80 species of wild bees, Roman snails, brimstones…
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B is for Buddhists in the Beechwoods
I have come to expect the unexpected in the Chiltern Hills, but tucked away in this beech woodland, has to be biggest surprise: a community of Buddhist…
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A is for Aylesbury
It’s not a pretty town, looking like the triumphant result of a child and their lego bricks, a jumble of structures plonked here and there. But it…
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