The Other Nostalgic Season
We talk about Christmas nostalgia as though it holds a monopoly on the feeling. But summer has its own quiet, nostalgic magic..,
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The Little Shop That Made My Heart Sing
The pure joy evoked by those shelves of cute stickers, mini tins and novelty rubbers has never left me, and never will. I’ve found myself re-collecting those tiny treasures through...
Where the Wild Garlic Grows
Gathering something by hand - whether a basket of wild garlic, a handful of blackberries or a few sprigs of elderflower - brings with it a simple kind of joy....
The Scrapbook Fairies
Rosamund’s Scrapbook Fairies A magical little world discovered between the pages of an old scrapbook ❤️
Hello Spring...
These are the memories that return to me as the light grows a little each day and I hear the wood pigeons softly cooing in the morning. Perhaps that’s what...
Remember November
Mid-November often goes unnoticed, tucked quietly between early autumn’s colour and Christmas’s sparkle. But if we pause, just for a moment, there’s actually something deeply beautiful about it.
Holly Hobbie: The Blue-Bonneted Girl Who Stole Our Hearts
To a generation growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Holly Hobbie represented a gentler kind of world. She belonged to a place where friends wrote letters on pretty paper,...
The Strong Pull Of Nostalgia
The joy of nostalgia... Happy memories comfort us. They ground us. And yet, somehow, they bring about the soft ache of knowing we can’t go back to that time.
Cranberry & Pumpkin Seed Cookies
I made these delicious cranberry and pumpkin seed cookies last week on a grey afternoon and they made the kitchen smell amazing! There's nothing like the smell of cookies baking...
Why Autumn Makes Us Want to Bake, Snuggle and Stay Home
Spring seems to urge us to fling open the windows and scrub everything clean, to shake out the rugs, dust and start afresh. But autumn is different. It feels almost...
September - A Return To Familiar Things
When we were children, the beginning of September meant shiny new school shoes, blank exercise books and freshly sharpened pencils. There was that odd mix of excitement and nerves as...
We’ve got something special planned for you…
To celebrate both our HQ’s birthday and the launch of our 2025 Autumn range, we have a lfree gift scheme that starts at 8pm 31/8
An Old Fashioned Loaf Cake Recipe!
Recently I was thinking of a delicious loaf cake my grandma used to bake. She called it ‘sticky loaf’ and I absolutely loved it. She would always bake one for...
The gentle pull of home as the season starts to turn ...
As the evenings gently begin to draw in and the late summer light begins to fade at the edges, our minds start to drift backwards. We find ourselves remembering… Not...
Why is it that we love tiny waistcoated creatures?
Rabbits in waistcoats and mice in aprons… A little reflection on our enduring affection for anthropomorphic animals.