The Choice Blog is a place where we will post interesting places, events, ideas and things that we've noticed whilst putting the magazine together.
They may be things that will develop into stories or justa great cafe that we called in at on a trip that we though we'd share with you.
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Editors Letter: Your tomatoes are coming on a treat
Monday, September 3rd 2018
Back in the Eighties when I was editor of Garden News my colleague and TV gardener Geoff Amos had a joke he always told at our readers' evenings about an old west country gardener having to recount good and bad news to his absent master from the big house.
The bad news was that the house had burned down taking wife and dog with it. Being positive the gardener said: "The good news is that with all the heat your tomatoes are coming on a treat."
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Monty Python would never be commissioned today?
Monday, August 20th 2018
The controller of BBC comedy says that Monty Python would never be commissioned today. Shane Allen said six white Oxbridge blokes would have no chance of getting on the TV.
Tell us something we can't work out for ourselves Mr Allen.
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Ian Tolfts: A room with a view
Thursday, July 19th 2018
We love our escapes away in the caravan," says Ian Tolfts. He and his wife, along with their boxer cross dog, take frequent trips away in their touring caravan to let them explore some hidden gems in the UK.
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Ditched diesel for hybrid
Monday, July 9th 2018
Paul and Sarah Wray live in south London with their three young children and have recently bought a Volvo XC90 T8 hybrid. "We need a big family car but we still wanted to do our bit for the environment," says Paul.
The family's previous car was a diesel. "When we bought it, diesel cars were thought to be better for the environment. As we all know this has been proven not to be the case, so we kind of wanted to make up for that."
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