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combine beautifully when poached with pears (with ice cream and a dollop of chocolate) - a way of using up our vast stock of unripe, bullet hard pears. Anybody else have problems with pears that refuse to ripen (the ones that are not eaten by birds

than that.By the way, we had a visitor to the garden this week: a stoat. It climbed over the roof of the barn and disappeared into a convenient hole in the bargeboard (presumably on a search for birds' nests). The only other time I have seen one

the young leaves were added to peoples' sandwiches; it supports at least 149 species of insect and the berries feed more than 23 species of bird; hawthorn is pollinated by dung flies and midges attracted to the mildly unpleasant smell and the fact

back bundles of branches that I then stick in the ground around the borders. Initially, the place appears to be colonised by enormous nesting birds, but this framework will soon be covered with plants which will, like matrons in whalebone girdles