Lifestyle Archive
(May 2022)

25 May 2022

Four lots illustrate the new normal

By William Gregory MRICS, Golding Young and Mawer. As auctions emerge from the pandemic, even though the restrictions had an overall positive effect, the new normal begins to appear. Bidders are again competing against each other from the auction rooms, mindful of the online buyers and the telephone speculators. All this competition strictly regulated and Read more…

The queen of flowers

Steffie Shields highlights shrubs and climbing roses in Lincolnshire gardens. A recent newspaper headline claimed that roses are now out of fashion! The current exhibition (until 19th June) ‘Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose’ at London’s Garden Museum might suggest otherwise. Whatever the case, I am brave enough to buck this nonsensical trend. ‘The queen Read more…

Classic Cliff village home offers scenic rural retreat

Granary House is an idyllic 19th-century stone family house in the pretty Cliff village of Boothby Graffoe. Located nine miles south of Lincoln, this outstanding and rarely available property in the small, historic Cliff village of Boothby Graffoe has been expertly extended to offer generous and flexible accommodation with superb views across the Trent Valley. Read more…