Tales from Titchmarsh
statues. Some – commemorating individuals who profited from the abhorrent slave trade – have been unceremoniously removed. My feelings about such actions are in line with those of a woman I met 20 years ago in South Africa. Her name is Graça Machel and she was married to a man for whom I had the greatest pleasure in making a garden – Nelson Mandela. His own statue stands in a corner of Parliament Square and I smile at him and nod a
