The seemingly endless dark grey, leaden skies and rainy days that have characterised much of the early part of this year have finally given way to warmth and sunshine. The grass is flourishing and the ewes and lambs are enjoying their days together and we are enjoying them epitomising the word ‘gambol’. Meanwhile, the many […]
We all have childhood memories of picnics. I expect we’ve all got an ideal image of the perfect picnic in our heads too, inspired by everything from Manet’s paintings of un déjeuner sur l’herbe to the Famous Five’s misappropriated lashings of ginger beer*! I remember childhood summer holidays when the spontaneous ‘let’s go for a […]
When I was a child, autumn half term was called ‘Blackberry Week’, or often by my Nana ‘Tattie Week’, harking back to Octobers when the hedgerows were full of brambles and the potato harvest was to be gathered in. One of my earliest memories of ‘foraging’ was when I was about six years old and […]