Sadly my daughter and I have had to leave our newly renovated villa in Puglia as I became very homesick and can you believe missing my career. Although my daughter left Italy fluent in the language and I myself having made many beautiful Italian friends, I wish to bring to your readers attention to what happened to us when we returned to the UK with our Italian cat Lucy.

After reading my ‘Under the Puglian Sun - the Funny side of Restoration' the producer of Channel Four's Grand Designs – Trade Secrets, contacted 'Macy' our editor to ask.....

For anyone interested in sustainable organic/biologic gardening, we've done some homework into maintenance of a pesticide- and herbicide-free vineyard. As you may know, commercially farmed grapes can have very high levels of chemical residue, internally and externally, and in the US it's recommended to buy/eat organic grapes if you are pregnant or feeding young children. We'll use the terms organic and biologic interchangeably, biodynamic practices (using moon phase, signs of zodiac, and other traditional techniques) takes organic/biologic gardening to the next level, and deserves an article of its own.