This World Alzheimer's Day on September 21st 2024, we're proud to honour the deeper significance behind our cherished Forget Me Not pattern.More than just a beautiful design, it’s a heartfelt remin...
“What can we bring?” The much-asked question to a host. As a host it can be hard to delegate, you don’t want your guests to go to any trouble, and it’s your show after all. As a guest, I find it im...
I was recently prompted to think of some of my favourite things after watching The Sound of Music with the grandkids who were visiting. It can be tricky to keep the list short, to say eight things ...
Every year there’s a certain point when a change in the weather acts as the catalyst for a shift in my cooking. Using pretty much the same ingredients I move from warming roasts and bakes to fresh,...
Breaking news… weeds are to be ‘rebranded’! The well-renowned Royal Horticultural Society has announced that we are all now to welcome these ‘resilient plants’. In my gardening book, I’ve often tur...
Quiche is a fabulously versatile dish. It can be flavoured to suit any meal of the day, occasion, season or tastebud. The most ultimate of tarts find that winning combination of creamy filling that...
All the golden-wrapped chocolate bunnies going hippity-hoppity on the shop shelves for Easter also remind us that this is also the lunar year of the rabbit. Said to be a symbol of hope and quiet op...
March is a very floriferous month, with carpets of crocus, narcissus and hellebores, masses of snowdrops, primroses and daffodils, as well as the blossom on trees such as blackthorn, goat willow an...