Northamptonshire
My prep school scarred me for life
‘A part of me died at school’, Charles Spencer writes in his shockingly stark account of sadism and sexual abuse at Maidwell Hall, Northamptonshire, in the 1970s
My tenant is being haunted. Possibly by my brother
I used to enjoy the ghost stories of M.R. James, but I’ve never actually seen a ghost or even believed…
A tale of a Teflon-coated hen pheasant
This is an uplifting story of survival with which to usher in the New Year. At Stoke Park, my home…
Inside, pursued by a swarm of bees
From reading the newspapers you might get the impression that honeybees were on the way to extinction. In Europe, it…
Local protests don't stop windfarms. Subsidy cuts do
Here in the valley of the River Tove in south Northamptonshire my chickens are laying copiously, my ducks are quacking…
