Over five generations, since the 1890s, the Jamieson family have been making jumpers from Shetland wool. The company was founded by Robert Jamieson in Sandness, on the west coast of the Shetland Isles. The snug pullovers with ribbed trim collar, cuff and hemline are an emblem of Scottish heritage, harking back to the first instance of Fair Isle knitting, even earlier than the company's creation in the 19th Century, on...

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One of the highlights of our trip to Japan was our visit to the Katsura Imperial Villa Gardens, Kyoto. Not being the organised sorts we got a very early train to stand in a queue for tickets later in the day. But we were rewarded with one of the great gardens of the world where the pine trees have names and even the pebbles in the stream are apparently aesthetically...