1. Pet Finder: Can you help a playful pair?

Ginger and white pair Carly and Joe are brother and sister looking for a new home together.

2. Heaven for 007 at charity lingerie night

3. My festive berries are being eaten by fat pigeon

Gardening at this time of year is a bit like housework  where you save yourself extra effort if you tidy as you go.

4. Pet Finder: Keeping guineas healthy

Q I have a pair of guinea pigs who live happily in a hutch on the lawn. Now that the cold weather is approaching, what should I do to make sure they are warm and stay healthy?

5. Rural Reading: Wet feet are worth it to see waders

I Wonder if our local fauna read Rural Reading. No sooner had I decided that a walk to the gravel pits was in order...

6. Go Organic: Buy nothing for 24 hours

Next Saturday is the official Buy Nothing Day, one of my favourite days of the year.

7. Recipe for Apple Charlotte

Traditionally, a “Charlotte” is encased in thinly sliced bread.

8. White’s wine

Any wine that can survive war deserves a bit of notice.

9. Pole lot of fun

When is exercise really fun? When it’s ‘sexercise’. Join City Woman on her quest to find fun and flirty fitness sessions to spice up your regime

10. Pet Finder - Bobby loves a bit of fuss

Young Bobby is a female black cat who came to the centre as a nervous stray.