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Climbing hills and playing croquet. Plus, old suitcases, stand-up comedy – and a song you just won’t be able to get out of your head…

Compiled by FRANCES AMBLER

DOWN TO A TEA TOWEL Not only a visual celebration of our connection to nature, this organic cotton design reinforces its maker's ethos to create 'useful, made-to-last' things in a sustainable way. £6.50, elliegood.co.uk BRICK IN THE WALL How many five-letter words can you find reading down the face of our wall? The letters of each word can only read downwards on touching bricks, taking one only from each line (answers on page 124) “Every time I travel I meet myself a little more” Yrsa Daley-Ward in Coordinates The skull and crossbones as an identifying flag is credited to prominent pirates in the 1710s: the description ‘jolly roger’ appeared in print the next decade. But notso-jolly images of skeletons were used on pirate ships at least a century before. WHAT TO DO WITH… OLD SUITCASES PRACTICAL: Add legs…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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