Country Life

The sun is shining in Andalusia

IT’S deepest winter and beastly cold—January is a depressing month. All one’s efforts are concentrated upon survival. There is nothing to be gained from a ‘good winter walk’ except pneumonia and bronchitis. And making a jolly bonfire will put you in trouble with the anti-pollution police. The only acceptable activity is to re-read your old gardening books and plan for the future. That means staying indoors and dreaming of spring. Hearty journalists bat on about coloured

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