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P.S. by Plum Sykes

Cotswolds Goss

The metaphorical cream tea of rumour

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Jan 23, 2026
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The Cotswolds rumour mill is an ever-flowing stream of deliciousness and with the summer a blink of an eye away, news about future jollities is flooding in. Herewith, the gossip from paradise…

This beautiful photograph by Ray Bird is of the unspoilt village of Acton Turville, Gloucestershire with the legendary Beaufort Hunt riding through.
  • Oil paintings in the loo are a thing here and The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, who live at Badminton House in Gloucestershire, always put them in their holiday lets. Yup, that’s the butler, below, hanging an old master in the powder room of Hollybush Cottage, which has just been finished (look at those mullioned windows! Gasp!) in time for spring.

A Beatrix-Potter dream: Hollybush Cottage, Badminton, Gloucestershire.

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