As I sit at my computer, with the wood burner bursting into life as morning logs are added to the preceding nights embers and snow swirls beyond my office window, garden guilt subsides for the first time this year. From the warmth of my office, I have checked every...
As we find ourselves on the brink of this year’s Festive season, with Santa likely to deliver a few more financial concerns than last Christmas, a view of how we focus expenditure, rather than restrict it, may well come in handy. I am talking about the increase in...
I would imagine that few of us would decry a Farmer’s Market and many more look forward to their weekly or monthly attendance at a nearby town square. It was not always so. Their early appearance was sometimes shunned by indigenous shopkeepers, displaying a vehemence...
In order to create one of those generous, comforting family lunches that can override a chilly Sunday, our Rayburn was stoked up last week in order to serve the dual purpose of warming a cool kitchen, whilst simultaneously establishing a hot oven. All was completed in...
With the sound of shotguns and tumbling pheasants close by, supermarkets offering cut-price Christmas crackers and the by-line ‘with all the trimmings’ appearing on booking menus at your nearby restaurant, it would be difficult not to identify the season...
