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Gardening guru’s secret hack will transform your vegetable garden for free
AS a gardener, you wouldn’t plant a rhododendron in chalky soil. And when it comes to clematis – it ‘roots in the shade – scrambles up to the sun’ – while roses do well in heavier clay. But why don’t we give the same attention to where our vegetables grow best? 3 Lucy Chamberlain working…
A Letter to Myself Podcast: Having ‘more stuff’ never gives peace of mind: Best-selling author Andrew Matthews on what makes people happy
On the importance of failure: My first experience with trying to be an author was heartbreaking. It took me 77 rejections to get a book published. We learn a lot from failure … It really doesn’t matter how many times we fail, as long as we keep going. And it’s not failure that really crushes…
We Ranked The Best Book Adaptations Of 2024 — And We Can’t Wait For These 2025 Projects
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that books are better than their screen adaptations. That fact hasn’t stopped filmmakers from trying to translate the magic on the page to the screen with varying degrees of success, and 2024 certainly had its share of failed attempts. (My least favourite was Prime Video’s watered-down version of The Idea…