Looking back at a year on the plot

Tall tagetes, clumps of calendula and happy pigeons

Two days past the shortest day, two days before Christmas. The winter solstice has been and gone. Daylight moments are mounting. The worst is likely over, at least in terms of light. Time to look forward, but mostly back. Time to assess Plot 29, 2018.

And what a year it was. We started with planting a dozen potatoes, enough for a few Sunday lunches. Back after a break of a couple of years, first and second earlies as always. Chitted in winter egg trays, grown in memories, eaten with butter and apple mint. Like proper vegetable gardeners. Like Dudley, my dad.

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Looking back at a year on the plot

Tall tagetes, clumps of calendula and happy pigeons

Two days past the shortest day, two days before Christmas. The winter solstice has been and gone. Daylight moments are mounting. The worst is likely over, at least in terms of light. Time to look forward, but mostly back. Time to assess Plot 29, 2018.

And what a year it was. We started with planting a dozen potatoes, enough for a few Sunday lunches. Back after a break of a couple of years, first and second earlies as always. Chitted in winter egg trays, grown in memories, eaten with butter and apple mint. Like proper vegetable gardeners. Like Dudley, my dad.

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Full metal jacket: a striking home in Bruton

A steel-clad home in Somerset blends beauty and contemporary architecture in a pretty Georgian town

At their first glimpse of Ferrum House, most people have the same question: “How did you get permission to build it?” Owners Andrew Pennock and Dana Anderson have been asked it countless times – often in admiration, sometimes in horror. “It’s definitely a Marmite house,” says Anderson. “We even overheard one little boy asking his mum if we were building a police station.”

Their contemporary home in Bruton, Somerset, is sandwiched between a handsome Georgian building and a former 19th-century silk mill, turned into a bacon factory in the 1900s and now divided into flats. Then, set back from the road, is Ferrum House: a mottled brutalist cube panelled in raw Corten steel that almost seems to hover above its more restrained timber-clad base.

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A steel-clad home in Somerset blends beauty and contemporary architecture in a pretty Georgian town

At their first glimpse of Ferrum House, most people have the same question: “How did you get permission to build it?” Owners Andrew Pennock and Dana Anderson have been asked it countless times – often in admiration, sometimes in horror. “It’s definitely a Marmite house,” says Anderson. “We even overheard one little boy asking his mum if we were building a police station.”

Their contemporary home in Bruton, Somerset, is sandwiched between a handsome Georgian building and a former 19th-century silk mill, turned into a bacon factory in the 1900s and now divided into flats. Then, set back from the road, is Ferrum House: a mottled brutalist cube panelled in raw Corten steel that almost seems to hover above its more restrained timber-clad base.

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