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    Sparring partners

    May 03, 2022 2 minutes
    with Val Bourne, AG’s organic wildlife expert

    ARDENING partnerships aren’t easy! My gardening hero, Margery Fish, married her husband Walter when she was in her 40s. They had both worked at the and Margery was secretary to six different editors, one of them being Walter. They decided to move to East Lambrook Manor in Somerset in 1937, after realising that the country would soon be at war.

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