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contents

Issue 48 Autumn 2009

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PROFILE: Jan Ross Brian Pearce

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FARMING TALK Brian Pearce

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SHEEP from lamb to loom with Kate Lynch 54 ENVIRONMENT Naomi Cudmore Heather Holt visits Slattenslade Cottage Autumn Glory Susie Logan 58 Window dressing Sue Scammell embraces the decorating PROPERTY challenge of awkward windows James Green 60 ANTIQUES COUNTRY MATTERS Roy Wright visits Barn Antiques Trevor Beer 63 PUB GRUB: The Rest and be Year of the beech Thankful Mary Gray and friends Jane Mares 64 IN THE STABLEYARD WALKING ON EXMOOR Cindy Cowling Sue Viccars rediscovers Culbone 66 Brendon Pony Fair Hawk Walk Chris Binding Cindy Cowling shadows the falconer 69 GARDENS Rosemary Lauder When the boat comes in Brian Pearce visits Appledore and 73 JONʼS JOTTINGS Ilfracombe 74 EXMOOR DIARY Fresh and fruitful Bob Deville’s autumn recipes 76 A Nettlecombe Fair Decade

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EXMOOR

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THE COUNTRY MAGAZINE 44

Previous page: Beech hedge, Jane Mares.

On opposite page: Upland beech, Jane Mares.

50 Exmoor Zoo Malcolm Rigby 53 Five scrunchy walks with Endymion Beer

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ASK BOB Bob Deville

79 Church Quiz

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BOOKS Including special offer!

80 TAILPIECE Norma Huxtable

50 Cover image: Horner Woods, Neville Stanikk.

48 Stanley Molland Michael Berry

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