Recipe
This plaited fruit loaf is simple to make and is sure to earn you ‘star baker’ status. Packed with apricots, sultanas and chopped apple, and scented with orange zest and cinnamon, it’s a taste sensation. Enjoy for breakfast, buttered as toast or as a teatime treat. It freezes beautifully, so why not slice and freeze to enjoy on a rainy day!
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Enjoy this lovely resort that is perched blissfully on the cusp of the North Pennines.
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April 2025 sees the launch of our new partnership with Ridgeline Clothing.
It can be tricky to find peace and quiet. To discover the right time and place to decompress, surrounded by nature and the majesty of landscape. But for those willing to put the effort (and miles) in, there are rewards and solitude waiting. Even in the UK.
So, in our June edition, we look at 21 of those extraordinary wild places – from St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides and the Pembrokeshire Coast in Wales, to the Isles of Scilly and Sark in the Channel Islands. One of my personal favourites is Loch Rannoch in Perthshire. I visited 10 years ago and have never forgotten the train journey up the west coast of Scotland with craggy peaks soaring away from the trainline and then to the loch itself. A long sliver of water overlooked by Schiehallion – the fairy hill of the Caledonians – famous for its almost perfectly conical shape. One of my abiding thoughts was: “Am I still in the UK?”, as it looked utterly other-worldly, almost like a scene from ‘Lord of the Rings’.
But it’s proof-positive that, away from the madding crowd, those wild and rugged places still exist on our crowded isle and they’re something that we should truly cherish.
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