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    Keeping track

    Aug 03, 2021 2 minutes

    YOU can keep the sudoku: my favourite train-journey pastime is spotting rail-side plants and allotment plots from the carriage window.

    Allotments are always fascinating, as even from an express train it’s possible to recognise differences between the plots. There are weedy ones alongside the pristine;

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