The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from April 2007:
The baby of all battles Tony Blair proposes 'baby Asbos' and the monitoring of every child
Apr 01, 2007; ... David Cameron wants to reduce state interference but strengthenthe family: childhood is now the only issue that significantlydivides the political parties, reports Jenny McCartney Something isvery wrong with the way we bring up children in this country. Whoshould put things right: the ...
Chelsea struggling to keep up
Apr 01, 2007; ... Watford0 Chelsea1 Kalou 90 Vicarage Road: 19,793 CHELSEA SEEM to be growing weary of the task of continually beingasked to match the feats of Manchester United in their quest to reelin their lead at the top of the Premiership. Once again, ...
CHAIN HOTELS IN THE LAP OF LIMITED LUXURY London's best new hotels offer style and comfort but no costly extras to bump up the bill.
Apr 01, 2007; ... A survey published last week by hotel booking website Hotels.comrevealed that hotels in London are now more expensive than in anyother European capital, with an average price of pounds 107 pernight. Copenhagen? pounds 93. Rome? pounds 94. And that pounds 107is an average, don't ...
TOP TEN MARKET TOWNS
Apr 01, 2007; ... Ludlow, Shropshire Saint Ives, Cornwall Lincoln, Lincs Fakenham, Norfolk Faversham, ...
High time for the slow street Eco-expert Sarah Lonsdale checks out the countrywide campaigns which aim to protect our market towns
Apr 01, 2007; ... GERALD Coyningham moved with his wife, Laura and children frombusy, traffic-choked south London to Crediton, in Devon eighteenyears ago. Crediton is a small rural market town on the northern edge ofDartmoor shunned by its inaccessibility by the Starbucks andMacdonalds of this ...
Chops and change Patrick Antony visits a moorland sheep farm which now produces mutton production
Apr 01, 2007; ... IT'S 'new season's lamb' time again. You would be hard pushed toknow though, because lamb is available all year round thanks toefficient global transportation and refrigeration. But there are a growing number of consumers who prefer to followthe natural seasonal cycle. Sheep ...
Trust me, I'm conserving the past Thousands of Britain's most fascinating homes are available for long-term rentals.
Apr 01, 2007; ... IF YOU'VE ever wondered what really happens in a National Trustcastle after the doors are shut, the red ropes taken down and theticket office closed, there is one way to find out. For the same kindrent as that you would pay for a two-bedroom flat in central Londonin one of the city's ...
HOW THEY COMPARE motorway food Jonathan Gornall takes a detour from motorway badness to eat just off the beaten track
Apr 01, 2007; ... BUYING a bucolic bolthole is a fine dream to help one through agrim Monday morning in the metropolis. But among the inconvenientrealities of bolting by car is the ghastly nose-to-tail experience oftrying to get there. At some point you finally succumb to fatigue andhunger and throw ...
Past master Seduced by the idea of owning a historical property? Helen Parker meets Dr Charles Kightly, the expert's expert on everything from ancient wallpaper to ceilings
Apr 01, 2007; ... IF YOU decide to take the plunge and and buy a listed building,its beams creaking with history, you will need advice. Meet DrCharles Kightly - a sort of 'Simon Schama' of interior design - whoknows more than most about preservation and listed buildings. If it'sinformation on the design ...
Why turn the wild into mild? Amanda Riley-Jones walks with wolves and reports on arguments for and against plans to reintroduce one of man's most feared predators to the UK countryside
Apr 01, 2007; ... "WHO wants to meet the wolf?'' says the man standing in front ofus. "Not me,'' says a retreating woman. "I'm not afraid, I just don'twant to.'' I step forward, holding my hand towards the wolf's mouth so shecan take my scent. The wolf turns her head and I come eye to eye withone ...
Personally speaking I'm just a redneck who would like to be greener
Apr 01, 2007; ... The mechanic called with the diagnosis last week: blown headgasket, he said, not to mention the ball joints and tie rods, theuniversal joint and who knows what else. 'It might be time ...,' hesaid. I cringed - I thought I had a few more years left with my pick-up truck. My ...
A ROUND OF EVER DECREASING TURTLES
Apr 01, 2007; ... I'VE NEVER REALLY BEEN A FAN OF the practical joke. Call me aweedy old liberal but, on the whole, the only thing I like that has avictim is Midsomer Murders, a splendid television programme in whichentire villages can be mown down during the course of a single summerfete. When I ...
LIFE AFTER DEATH THEATRE JOAN DIDION WROTE 'THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING', HER EXTRAORDINARY MEMOIR OF LOSS, IN ORDER TO KEEP HERSELF SANE. BUT THE PROSPECT OF ADAPTING THE BOOK FOR THE STAGE THREATENED TO UNDO ALL THAT. HERE SHE DESCRIBES HOW - WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM DAVID HARE AND VANESSA REDGRAVE - SHE RELUCTANTLY CREATED THE BROADWAY EVENT OF THE YEAR
Apr 01, 2007; ... I AM MAKING THESE FIRST NOTES ON MONDAY, 29 January, 2007: 11am ina rehearsal studio on West 42nd Street. New York, winter light, floor-to-ceiling glass, a barre, the Bill T. Jones dancers from the nextstudio taking a break in the corridor. The theatrical company for TheYear of ...
A SEX PISTOL SAVED MY LIFE FILM HE FELT OUT OF LUCK IN ENGLAND AND OUT OF PLACE IN INDIA, BUT IN AMERICA NAVEEN ANDREWS IS DOING FINE. HE TALKS TO STRAWBERRY SAROYAN ABOUT HIS STARRING ROLE AS AN IRAQI FIGHTER - AND THE PUNK WHO GOT HIM OFF DRUGS
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE BLOND, BLUE-EYED LADYKILLER. THE DANGEROUS, bad-boy criminal. The sensitive, skinny, loser-with-women guy. Ina city where Central Casting rules - one sometimes doesn't see peoplein Los Angeles so much as 'types' - it's difficult to imagine whatpeople initially made of Naveen ...
interview: lee child
Apr 01, 2007; ... We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in thehead, there's no doubt about that,' says Lee Child. 'We're toocivilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it. The key tothrillers is vicarious pleasure.' Child is 52 years old, and British,but now resident in New York ....
LIKE DAN BROWN, BUT BETTER BOOKS THEY'RE BIG, BRASH - AND BESTSELLING. SO IGNORE ALL THOSE LITERARY SNOBS, SAYS DAVID THOMAS, AND GIVE IN TO THE PAGE-TURNING POWERS OF LEE CHILD AND HIS THRILLER-WRITING PEERS.
Apr 01, 2007; ... That's the opening action of Bad Luck and Trouble, the newthriller by Lee Child, which comes out tomorrow and can be guaranteedto rocket straight to the upper reaches of the bestseller charts. Ialready have my copy. So I know how Child's hero, Jack Reacher, a 6ft5in, 17st 8lb ex-US Army ...
double standards Days of Glory The Namesake
Apr 01, 2007; ... At the outset of Days of Glory (12A), which opens in 1943, theassembled troops from France's colonies sing a heartfelt song oftheir 'invincible ardour' for their French 'fatherland'. Theygradually realise, however, that France views its black and brownchildren differently from the ...
Mr Bean's Holiday The Hills Have Eyes 2 Meet The Robinsons Beyond Hatred The Last Mimzy
Apr 01, 2007; ... Mr Bean's Holiday (PG) To name this belated conclusion to the adventures of RowanAtkinson's rubber-legged nit in homage to Monsieur Hulot's Holiday isa courageous move. Particularly given that it's set in France - whereBean bumbles after winning a ticket in the church raffle, ...
DVDs Out this week
Apr 01, 2007; ... FLUSHED AWAY ????? Paramount/DreamWorks, U, pounds 19.99 Flushed Away is the first animation in which Aardman has used CGItechnology instead of stop-motion models, and the second in the ...
Out this week DVD OF THE WEEK
Apr 01, 2007; ... HAPPY FEET ????? Warner Bros, U, pounds 17.99 You can read this Oscar-winning CGI animation in several ways - asan animal rights manifesto, as a coded gay tolerance plea or simplyas a family entertainment, which is how kids and parents will welcomeit this Easter ....
DVDs Out this week
Apr 01, 2007; ... REDS ????? Paramount, 15, pounds 19.99 Warren Beatty had a hard time bringing this pet project to thescreen - it is, as he put it himself, 'a three-hour film about acommunist who dies' ....
DVDs Out this week
Apr 01, 2007; ... ROMEO AND JULIET ????? DD Home Entertainment, PG, pounds 10.99 Visually this one of the screen's most opulent adaptations: it'slike Renaissance paintings sprung to life and, surprisingly, ...
DVDs Out this week
Apr 01, 2007; ... NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM ????? Fox, PG, pounds 24.99 There's a comedian to please everyone in this unpretentious familyflick: Ben Stiller and Ricky Gervais for the youth, Mickey Rooney andDick Van Dyke for the elderly, Robin Williams ...
a savage nobility A New World: England's First View of America
Apr 01, 2007; ... In the late 18th century, the Earl of Charlemont acquired amysterious album of watercolours, filled with curious images of theflora, fauna and people of a distant land. About 50 years later, itwas put up for auction at Sotheby's. A fire at the warehouse singedthe book's spine and several ...
ART CHOICE
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection Queen's Gallery,Buckingham Palace, London SW1 (020 7766 7301) to 20 Jan, 2008. Animpressive look at royal taste and connoisseurship, with 90 paintingsand 85 drawings including work by Michelangelo, ...
OTHER THEATRE sinner and saint The Bargain
Apr 01, 2007; ... In London, in April 1988, Robert Maxwell met Mother Teresa ofCalcutta. He played host to her in his Oxfordshire mansion and evengave her a whirl in his helicopter. Afterwards the Daily Mirror ran afund-raising campaign on behalf of her order. Three years later, whenMaxwell's body was ...
a cry for freedom Sizwe Banzi is Dead The Merchant of Venice
Apr 01, 2007; ... In the programme of Sizwe Banzi is Dead at the National'sLyttelton theatre, there is a picture of its two stars and creators,John Kani and Winston Ntshona, taken in 1973, one year after the playhad first been performed. To see them on stage now is to realisethat, like their play - a ...
OTHER THEATRE The Skin Game The Taming of the Shrew
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Skin Game Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond (020 8940 3633) to 28 April First seen in 1920, The Skin Game was John Galsworthy's firstcommercial hit, about the battle between new money and old. SquireHillcrist, played with bemused paternalism by Geoffrey Beevers, is ...
on the road again Eugene Onegin The Seraglio Traced Overhead
Apr 01, 2007; ... English Touring Opera's remarkably long and wide-ranging springseason takes it to theatres good, bad and ugly. So stagings have tobe both portable and practical, and its new productions fulfil thosecriteria cleverly. Both works, however, hinge on a clash of cultures -rural Russia meets ...
CDs Out this week
Apr 01, 2007; ... This immensely talented quartet, founded at the RNCM in 1998, hasthat rare quality of unforced spontaneity. This is heard vividly inthese quartets, beginning with Op. 13 (1827), a tribute to Beethoven,a remarkable piece for a first effort in the medium and itdemonstrates Mendelssohn's ...
geeks and eurofreaks I'm From Barcelona
Apr 01, 2007; ... Sweden's greatest-ever supersized singalong novelty comedy groupI'm From Barcelona seems to be shrinking. Last year there were almost30 sundry Swedish nuts, losers, passers-by, hippies, clowns,pranksters, no-hopers, geeks, cheerful eurofreaks and frantic partyanimals taking part in cult ...
CDs Out this week
Apr 01, 2007; ... A reader asked the other day whether it's my policy always to tryto be rude about records all the other critics love. And the answeris: no. With every album I listen to I set out fervently hoping thatI shall be able to award it five stars. Problem is, realityintervenes and it invariably ...
mr manners on parade Noel Gallagher The View
Apr 01, 2007; ... In the first of this year's Teenage Cancer Trust shows at theRoyal Albert Hall, Noel Gallagher (above) gives a masterclass in howto behave on such occasions. Where the preening self-regard thatRazorlight's Johnny Borrell exhibited at Live 8 is generally agreed to mark a ...
POP CHOICE
Apr 01, 2007; ... Kate Nash Teenage folk-rock prodigy bandied around as 'the next Lily Allen'. Leeds Brudenell Social Club (0871220 0260) Tues. Nottingham The Social (0871 220 0260) Wed. Le Beat Bespoke 3 Weekender The Buzzcocks and Vincent Vincent & The Villains ...
do the subcontinental Srishti: Quiet Please! Royal Ballet mixed bill
Apr 01, 2007; ... A freezing Friday night in beautiful downtown Hatch End,Middlesex, to catch up with Nina Rajarani's company, Srishti, whosespring tour of Quiet Please! had reached Harrow Arts Centre.Rajarani's all-male quartet Quick!, in the Bharata Natyam tradition,was the deserving winner of the ...
I wish I'd been more offended Dick Gregory Live Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Friends and Neighbours
Apr 01, 2007; ... In the listing for Dick Gregory Live (Radio 4, Tuesday), the RadioTimes promised: 'This programme contains offensive language.'Splendid. There is hardly any offensive language on Radio 4. A fewyears ago, there was a definitively rude word in an Ian McEwanserialisation on Book at Bedtime, ...
mother of all battles Mummy's War Dispatches: Toff at the Top The Apprentice Child Slavery
Apr 01, 2007; ... OK people, we've got the 25th anniversary of the Falklands Warcoming up. Ideas?' 'How about flying Lady Thatcher out to the Falkland Islands with afilm crew and - ' 'Not up to the journey.' A finger-and-thumb click from Jeremy in documentaries: 'Got it!How about ...
FICTION CHRISTOPHER TAYLER ENJOYS IAN MCEWAN'S SMALL-SCALE NOVEL OF SEXUAL NERVOUSNESS
Apr 01, 2007; ... On Chesil Beach BY IAN MCEWAN JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 12.99, 176 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Chesil Beach in Dorset is a favourite destination for geologists,and readers of Saturday, Ian McEwan's last novel, might expect hisnew one, On ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'Jill' by philip larkin
Apr 01, 2007; ... The real-life inspiration for Philip Larkin's Jill was thenovelist Jilly Cooper. Larkin met Cooper (then Coleman) at Oxford,where her family lived at Headington, and published Jill in 1947 whenshe was 13 years old. The Jill of the novel was 16, too young to be astudent but old enough to ...
FICTION DAMIAN THOMPSON IS IMPRESSED BY THIS STORY OF A MUCH MALIGNED FIGURE AS TOLD BY ANOTHER
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Gospel According to Judas: By Benjamin Iscariot BY JEFFREY ARCHER & FRANK MALONEY MACMILLAN, pounds 9.99, 102 pp T pounds 9.99 (99p p&p) 0870 428 4115 The age of miracles is not over. Jeffrey Archer has written a goodbook. Actually, make that an ...
POLITICS IS DAVID CAMERON READY FOR OFFICE? THIS BIOGRAPHY GIVES THE ANSWER, SAYS IAIN MARTIN
Apr 01, 2007; ... Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative BY FRANCIS ELLIOTT AND JAMES HANNING HARPERPRESS, pounds 18.99, 320 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In the evening following David Cameron's leadership-winning speechat the Tory Party ...
ART MICHAEL PRODGER IS GRIPPED BY BOTH THE PAINTING OF A TRAGEDY AND ITS TRAGIC PAINTER
Apr 01, 2007; ... Medusa: The Shipwreck, The Scandal, The Masterpiece BY JONATHAN MILES JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 17.99, 334 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Thodore Gricault was the quintessential Romantic artist: he died young and in torment, leaving behind ...
LIVES OLIVER PRITCHETT CELEBRATES THE SCURRILOUS LIFE OF THE AUTHOR OF 'THE HENRY ROOT LETTERS'
Apr 01, 2007; ... You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: TheThoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson BY TERENCE BLACKER EBURY, pounds 12.99, 342 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 You can't help admiring the devotion of Terence ...
HISTORY LEO MCKINSTRY LOOKS AT WHY IRELAND CLUNG TO PEACE WHEN THE REST OF THE WORLD WAS FIGHTING
Apr 01, 2007; ... That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During theSecond World War BY CLAIR WILLS FABER, pounds 25, 502 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Ourselves alone' was the watchword of the Irish republicanmovement in the years leading up to ...
Literary Life
Apr 01, 2007; ... It had to happen sooner or later. A book to be published this autumn on both sides of the Atlantic makes thesensational claim that the Princess of Wales is alive and well andliving on an island off the coast of South Africa (which is why PrinceHarry often pops down to ...
WAR RICHARD OVERY EXAMINES HOW A SMALL BASQUE TOWN BECAME A SYMBOL OF THE HORRORS OF MODERN WAR
Apr 01, 2007; ... Guernica and Total War BY IAN PATTERSON PROFILE, pounds 15.99, 199 pp T pounds 13.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 On 26 April 70 years ago a small number of German aircraft fromthe notorious Condor Legion bombed the small Basque town of Guernicaand created ...
MUSIC JOHN ALLISON ON A LIVELY LAMENT FOR THE CLASSICAL RECORD INDUSTRY
Apr 01, 2007; ... Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness BY NORMAN LEBRECHT ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 20, 324 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 When Norman Lebrecht won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003,many in the music business joked that he had been ...
DINAH HALL GOES ON AN EASTER HUNT FOR THE BEST NEW CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Apr 01, 2007; ... ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Why spend pounds 9.99 on a badly scanned, tediously drawn out,soppily predictable book on sibling rivalry when Colin McNaughtondoes it so much better in four lines? Most story books for youngerchildren have neither the concision nor the power of any ...
CRIME FICTION
Apr 01, 2007; ... Jesse Kellerman's second novel, Trouble (Sphere, pounds 10.99),fulfils the promise of his debut last year with a mesmerising storyof malevolence and obsession. Jonah Stem is barely surviving thehectic schedule of a medical student - too much stress, too littlesleep and constant ...
FICTION NEEL MUKHERJEE WONDERS WHAT COULD HAVE INSPIRED THIS MANICALLY INVENTIVE FANTASY
Apr 01, 2007; ... Hospital BY TOBY LITT HAMISH HAMILTON, pounds 14.99, 511 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 With Hospital, his eighth book, Toby Litt's alphabetical marchcontinues apace. It has always been a bit difficult to pin down theshape-shifting Litt: he ...
DEBUT DAVID ROBSON ENJOYS A DOMESTIC DRAMA SET DURING A CIVIL WAR
Apr 01, 2007; ... A Golden Age BY TAHMIMA ANAM JOHN MURRAY, pounds 14.99, 276 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The key exchange in A Golden Age comes two-thirds of the waythrough the novel. 'When you are asked how you stand with the war, ifyou believe in ...
FICTION NEEL MUKHERJEE WONDERS WHAT COULD HAVE INSPIRED THIS MANICALLY INVENTIVE FANTASY
Apr 01, 2007; ... Hospital BY TOBY LITT HAMISH HAMILTON, pounds 14.99, 511 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 With Hospital, his eighth book, Toby Litt's alphabetical marchcontinues apace. It has always been a bit difficult to pin down theshape-shifting Litt: he ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE WAR OF THE WORLD: HISTORY'S AGE OF HATRED BY NIALL FERGUSON PENGUIN, pounds 9.99 Humankind, points out Niall Ferguson, has been more violent in the20th century than in any other. He does write of the 'basic instinctsburied even within the most civilised man' ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 01, 2007; ... BLACK SWAN GREEN BY DAVID MITCHELL SCEPTRE, pounds 7.99 David Mitchell's fourth book is puzzling. This first-person storyof a 12-year-old boy's life in Worcestershire in 1982 seems a belatedautobiographical debut of an almost run-of-the-mill kind yet it ishis fourth ...
turn on Ian gillan goes wireless around the world
Apr 01, 2007; ... MY FAVOURITE GADGET WAS A PANASONIC electric pencil sharpener. Itwas my best friend for 20 years, but it died recently. Now the thingthat really turns me on is the little Apple Airport Express BaseStation. It enables me to plug into the internet outlet of a hotelroom and transfer that ...
road test ASTON MARTIN'S ROADSTER OFFERS A RAVISHING DRIVE AND A PRICE TAG THE SIZE OF A SMALL HOUSE, SAYS NEIL LYNDON
Apr 01, 2007; ... LAST WEEK, I PLAYED THE PART OF THE lottery winner. A BentleyContinental GTC was delivered to my door for a week's loan. Then Iwas flown by private jet to a succession of five-star hotels inFrance and Spain, where I spent some days bathed in warm springsunshine, driving first the new ...
BRIDGE
Apr 01, 2007; ... LOOK AT SOUTH'S CARDS and imagine yourself at the table. Youdecide to dredge up a bid after partner has overcalled West's 1C with1D, mainly because you are unlikely to land in a worse spot. Whathappens next? Dealer South E/W Vul S A 8 3 H A K 9 4 D ...
CHESS
Apr 01, 2007; ... THE HIPPOPOTAMUS OPENING is a great way to avoid theoretical linesand transfer the weight of the struggle to the middlegame. It is sonamed because Black places his forces 'low in the water' and does notemerge above the first three ranks until the time is right. Pioneeredby Maximilian ...
POKER
Apr 01, 2007; ... IN THE MODERN ERA OF POKER, the number of tournaments, both bigand small, is increasing exponentially. The European Poker Tour hasreached its grand final in Monte Carlo, the World Poker Tour isnearing its end, and already the WSOP season has begun - actually,the qualifying season has ...
SHOOTING STARS Three nearby towns. If you buy in the first, the investment will grow steadily. Buy a home in the next and it should rise rapidly. But take a gamble on the third and you could hit the property jackpot. Caroline McGhie identifies the market's
Apr 01, 2007; ... With the white heat of a rising house market, prices can surgemore each year than homeowners can hope to earn in their wagepackets. Even our pensions now depend on what is happening in theestate agent's window. The need to understand where the bestperforming markets are, where the surges ...
Easy to access, hard to find Homes modified for disabled people are out there but, as Graham Norwood writes, they are not readily identified
Apr 01, 2007; ... Gerry Kent's life was changed forever by routine surgery in 2004.Then a senior lecturer at Sheffield University, he suffered a severestroke on the operating table and spent weeks in intensive care and atotal of 10 months in hospital before going home in a wheelchair. "I was faced ...
On The Level Should I do all my survey says?
Apr 01, 2007; ... Q. What is the order of jobs to set about after surveys have saidthat a house needs rewiring, part of the roof renewing, timbertreatment and a new damp course and central heating installed? RG, by e-mail A. Some of these jobs might not need doing at all. When you ...
On The Level NEW WINDOW FRAMES
Apr 01, 2007; ... Q. I am installing new softwood window frames in a stone-builtworkshop and pre-painting them. My builder has advised not to paintthe frame surface adjoining the stone wall as this will then allowthe wood "to breathe'' I have never heard of this before; surely itwill allow the ingress of ...
On The Level RE-GLAZING PORCELAIN
Apr 01, 2007; ... Q. Is it possible to re-glaze a U-bend? When our toilet wasdelivered I never bothered to check it, and I now discover that the glazing has totally worn off on some small patches, which makes it look dirty. Is there any way one can"repair'' the damage? BW, ...
No more awkward corners Built as a vicar's folly, two round houses are on sale.
Apr 01, 2007; ... Mrs Tiggy-Winkle would feel quite at home in either of two Cornishcottages now on the market. Both started life in the early 1800s ashoneypot-like round houses. The Beehive still has a central chimney, built to serve a fire onwhich Beatrix Potter's hedgehog washer woman could boil ...