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If you want to know how to prune fruit trees then you would struggle to find anyone better than leading orchard owner – Matthew Foster, to show you the current best practice. Owner and manager of Dingle farm in Worcestershire, Matthew has been running his orchard of stone fruits for over ten years and produces arguably the best cherry crop in the country. So why not join us as we pick his brains on the best way to prune fruit trees. If you would like to see more content like this then check out the other videos on our YouTube channel ‘Walking Talking Gardeners’. It is absolutely free to subscribe to and if you click onto the notification ‘bell’ icon then you can be notified whenever a new video is published.

Southeast Asia has a very special place in my heart because it’s the place where the seeds of veganism were officially planted into my head (I saw a dead dog at the meat market 🙁 ). I’ve lived in Bangkok, house sat in Chiang Mai and travelled across Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos, Thailand and Singapore. Whilst I’m loathe to put these unique countries with their unique histories and cultures into one box of sweeping statements, it still can’t be denied: the food in Southeast Asia is incredible. Yes, even for travelling vegans. In this (hopefully useful) guide, I’m giving a quick overview of the eight Southeast Asian countries I’ve personally travelled vegan in (with an invitation for you to add your own tips for Myanmar, Brunei and East Timor). As is my usual ‘style’, I’m laying out (pun intended?) the accidentally vegan foods of each country as well as the traditional foods of the countries and how t...

The steamy second book in Janet Chapman ’s dazzling Midnight Bay series, DRAGON WARRIOR (Pocket Star; January 25th, 2011; $7.99) , seduces readers with an enticing tale of a fiery independent woman and an irresistible immortal warrior with a dragon’s courageous heart. Maddy Kimble has no time for a suitor—not with caring for her spunky nursing home patients, her shy nine-year-old daughter, her widowed mother, and her rebellious teenage brother. William Kilkenny’s stunning lack of modern dating protocol doesn’t help. The man is uncouth and outrageous—a towering, drop-dead, breathtakingly hot warrior. Who refuses to give up. William is secretly a ninth-century Irish nobleman formerly trapped in a dragon’s body. All Maddy knows is that lately, she can hardly resist the urge to lose herself in his powerful arms. But as their uncontrollable passion grows, eerie occurrences in her small coastal Maine town begin to rouse Maddy’s suspicions about her lover. He begs her to trust him, but how c...