The Tree Bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) is a relative newcomer to the UK. Since its arrival from France in 2001, it has been rapidly expanding its range throughout England and Wales.

Original Cottages are sponsoring the Council for British Archaeology’s 2021 Festival of Archaeology, “Exploring Local Places”.

From the mud on your boots to the sand between your toes, looking after the ground we walk on is so important.

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September is a great month for getting out and about and Laura from the Bumblebee Conversation Trust invites you to learn more about Yorkshire's rarer species.  Home to swathes of rolling green Dales, the brooding North York moors and pi

Luxury, defined as comfort, elegance, spacious and sumptuous surroundings, something that is not essential but desirable, with a definite touch of milk and honey thrown in for good measure.

As an occupant of a rather flat county in the east of England, I have to admit that apart from one trip to Scotland, I have not ventured much further north than Leeds during my time on the planet.

‘Let me count the ways’, well one way is to parcel up a romantic weekend away in a gorgeous country cottage. The recipe is perfectly simple.

Dorset, a place I drive past on my way to other western counties, sad to say I have never stopped and visited, something I intend to put right very shortly.

Wales, ‘Land of my Fathers’ so the national anthem goes and you couldn’t get anything more masculine than rugby about which the Welsh are passionate and my all male household too. So, as a significant male birthday looms on the horizon, what bette