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A quiet Christmas in the Weald
An AGA kitchen, fifteen acres, one outing worth leaving the house for and a great deal of not very much. How a quiet Christmas at The Oast works, and how to plan one.
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Seasonal guides & Christmas
Summer outings, autumn colour, Halloween and the approach to Christmas.
Some outings belong to a particular time of year: a garden in summer, autumn colour or Halloween in Frant. This collection gathers the Journal’s seasonal guides so you can find ideas for the month of your visit. Christmas pieces will join the same archive as they are published. Where an article covers a dated event, use its year as your starting point and check the organiser’s current details before booking. A previous season’s guide is not a promise that an event will return.
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7 minutes
Days out from Martins Farm: summer
Not a list of places. Three days, in the order we would drive them, with the lunch stop already worked out and the last hour left for the meadow.
6 minutes
Days out from Martins Farm: autumn
The Weald spends three weeks being the best-looking part of England and then goes to bed. Here is how to spend them, in three shapes: colour, romance and a grand house with an indoor answer held in reserve.
6 minutes
Days out from Martins Farm: Halloween
The countryside supplies dark lanes, old trees, Victorian buildings and unexplained noises free of charge. All the end of October asks is that you be home in time for the village.
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