Autumn – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness... Usually I love autumn – the colours in our Cheshire parks, Hallowe’en, Bonfire Night. And Marbs – still sunny, but out of season when the kids and tourists leave, is fabulous fun. However, this autumn looks set to be a challenge for a social butterfly like me, as I am really now locking down and following the strict rules in place for Trafford and Spain – that is after I got over the shock of finding out that technically I live in Trafford not Cheshire!
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Home From Home For Christmas
Want to get away for the festive season but somewhere that’s comfortingly close? Here is our top 10 of feel-good escapes in and around Cheshire
LAUREN SIMON
Lauren is still in shock about where she lives, but is making the most of autumn in Cheshire
LOUISE MINCHIN
The BBC breakfast host on life beyond the red sofa
KALINI KENT
In conversation with Cheshire’s movers and shakers
AT HOME WITH Dave Lister, Lloyd Mullaney, Trunk of Funkster CRAIG CHARLES
The multi-faceted entertainer spends his working life here, there and everywhere, and he’s very happy he has Cheshire to come home to
CLARE MACKINTOSH
Where does the author of four bestselling novels find inspiration when she’s stuck for words?
Suits you
Your chance to take home a bespoke tailored suit made in the heart of Liverpool
Swamp thing
Kunal Trehan and Thomas Hope are creating the home of their dreams in Sandbach, and started with the very damp grounds
An autumn stroll with Darcy and Elizabeth
A quarter of a century ago Colin Firth took a swim and plunged Cheshire’s Lyme Park into global fame
A BRUSH WITH CHESHIRE
Explore our diverse county through the eyes and imaginations of these artists and their very different styles
FOOD FOR Thought
All about food
MALÚ
FROM TIKTOK TO TRE VEJO LEAVES THE LATIN NO PLATFORM UNTURNED.
THE ANIMAL-HUMAN CONFLICT
RAJESH MENON is a wildlife photographer and environmental conservationist living in North India. Here he shares some ideas for solutions to the animalhuman conflicts that are apparent in all regions of the world today.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR RETREAT
I was fortunate enough to sail to perhaps the original, and certainly the most famous, ancient healing retreat—the Temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, on the Argolid Peninsula in Greece.
SPAIN'S OLD KING DODGES $100M BRIBERY PROBE
SPAIN’s womanizing King Juan Carlos has beaten a corruption kickback case that claimed he raked in a whopping $100 million in payoffs over a railroad construction deal.
COLD TRUTH
Guthrie Govan delivers a faithful account of the Aristocrats onstage with Freeze! Live in Europe 2020.
The Iberians
The Iberian Peninsula is a geographical concept formed by Spain and Portugal, two geographically united countries but separately by an invisible border.
The Golden Iron Mineral
PYRITE’S MANY CRYSTAL FORMS KEEP COLLECTORS FASCINATED
A CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH LEAPY LEE
On vacation on the Costa del Sol in Spain, I happened across an English language newspaper named The Euro Weekly News. There was an article signed by Leapy Lee. I wondered, “How many Leapy Lees can there be in this world?” An email address was attached. I contacted him and indeed, it was the British singer of “Little Arrows” fame. “Little Arrows,” an international country rock hit in 1968, made it to No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold three million copies worldwide. I set out to find what Leapy Lee has been doing since 1968.
Dinosauriana Imagined 13
Dinosauriana Iberiana (A Spain-ful Endeavor)