HAVE you seen The Newt?’ It was the question everyone asked me back in the summer of 2019. Friends said that I would like it.
The Newt turned out to be a reincarnation of Hadspen House in Somerset, where Penelope Hobhouse used to live. It was not easy to get my head round the changes to the garden and, actually, the thing I liked most was the farm shop. But my visit was just before covid was invented, so I went back there earlier this year—this time, with three of my grandsons, who wanted to
