Who Needs a Scented Candle When You Can Have a Scented Fire?

25 October 2014 - Joanna Hazelton
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I’m certainly not going to let the chilly evenings spoil my enjoyment of being in the garden for the rest of this year. There really is nothing nicer than huddling around a roaring fire, snug and warm with a mug of cocoa in hand, watching the glowing embers and flickering flames as they leap and […]

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Ooh…Look What We've Done In Our Garden!

9 September 2014 - Joanna Hazelton
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We’ve only gone and done it… And, I have to say, I do feel rather smug about it :-). I’ve never really liked our patio area. Dirty grey stones that were forever needing jet washing and nasty little weeds that were forever growing, despite constant weeding and copious amounts of weedkiller. I swear, if weeds […]

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Ooh…Look What We’ve Done In Our Garden!

- Joanna Hazelton
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We’ve only gone and done it… And, I have to say, I do feel rather smug about it :-). I’ve never really liked our patio area. Dirty grey stones that were forever needing jet washing and nasty little weeds that were forever growing, despite constant weeding and copious amounts of weedkiller. I swear, if weeds […]

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Lovely Day for a Picnic – What Are You Bringing?

10 June 2014 - Joanna Hazelton
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1738 was a momentous year for the English picnic. This was the year the London department store Fortnum & Mason invented the Scotch egg (you’ll never be stuck for a conversation opener again!). Now, I am rather partial to a picnic it has to be said – although I would happily swap the Scotch eggs […]

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