Last weekend, before our Christmas Wreath making course, lovely Jayne came along with me and the boys, foraging for ingredients, (the girls opted for warmth and friends instead and played at Kirstin’s). We are really lucky to have The Downs on our doorstep, and although I feel like a proper mother saying it, whenever you […]
So, after our first Wreath Workshop at beautiful Bignor on Saturday everything it really is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Here is a really easy recipe for Mincemeat so you can whip up some mince pies an at the drop of a hat, a la domestic goddess. You will need: 1lb grated Bramley Apples 1 […]
We set off early(ish !) this morning for Bignor Park and got everything set up for our very first workshop EVER.We set up their tools, lit the wood burner, put the tea urn on and waited for our gang to come along. Here’s what it looked like according to Lisa Devlin, who came along and […]
You may have already heard about our Christmas Wreath Workshop at Beautiful Bignor this Sunday 1st December 2013. Our morning session has now sold out but we’re pleased to announce that there’s now an afternoon session and we have a few spaces left at 1330 if you and your friends fancy whiling away a winter’s […]
Francesca & Charlie were married at the local church before coming back to Charlie’s parents stunning country garden in Poynings, in the South Downs, Sussex, for the reception and wedding breakfast. Francesca and her friends had fluffed and froofed paper poms, the garden was tended and titivated, the lawns were mown. On arrival Kirstin and […]
Sophie and Gavin were married at Bartholomew Barn, just outside Petworth this year and they asked us to do the flowers and come along with the ice cream bike in the evening. The barn is set deep in the Sussex Countryside, nestled between gardens, fields and woodland. The couple were going for a very relaxed […]
By the time Will and Fran’ got married I felt like I knew them. She had got in touch about 2 years before the day and we had met up a few time, chatted on the phone lots and exchanged around 1000 emails (ish), all about the food and the flowers. The couple had […]
Victoria and Jon were married in August at beautiful Bignor House, just down the road from us. It’s a great venue, although it is a country house it’s not stuffy or stiff, if you know what I mean. It’s friendly and lived in, which suits us down to the ground! The sun shone, their friends and family were […]
Last week was half term. The kids had a lovely time. They ‘Trick or Treated’, visited Mimi and Baggy (my Mum and Dad), and the big two ‘middle-classed it up’ at Fishbourne Roman Palace, being Roman soldiers for the day. On Saturday morning Lisa popped over to have a fry up, hang out and take […]
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door – Only this, […]
