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Cheers! Win new glass and £250 Perfect Cellar wine voucher

To celebrate the launch of our new wine carafe (and our ever-glorious glassware) we’ve teamed up with wine experts Perfect Cellar to offer you the...

Emma's Top Sale Picks

Tumbling blocks is one of my very fave patterns - in my own kitchen I use mugs and old bowls in this pattern with huge pleasure - and I’ve given aw...

Win! Luxury overnight family trip

This competition has now ended. We are dreaming of city breaks ahead, and to celebrate UK hotels being open once again, we’ve joined up with our f...

How I live now: Digging my garden and watching the daisies grow

I showed a friend some pics of my newly dug veg plot, his reaction was unexpected-That looks just like an allotment on some lost fenland backroad....

How I live now: Morning Coffees

Personally I make coffee using a filter, and I have a grinder so the taste is as big as possible- but after that I’m maybe travelling in the oppo...

Tusk 30th Anniversary Mug

We are delighted to be working with Tusk again and to mark the charity’s 30th year we’re launching a special mug featuring much-loved cheetahs, rhi...

Fishing for recipes?

Feeling adventurous? Cook Emma’s delicious mussels recipe (also available on the bottom of the mussels dish!)   How I live now: Fish on FridaysEmm...

International Nurses Day

Tuesday 12th May is International Nurses Day. This year we’re delighted to be partnering with Marie Curie, whose incredible nursing staff care and...

Celebrate your garden today

Emma says: I reckon that nothing is more restorative than time spent out of doors, whether striding about out out in the wilds, or pottering in my...

Good Neighbours

In May 2020 we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of VE Day. Despite the pandemic, we will be remembering that momentous and joyful day, when victor...

How I Live Now- Looking at Birds

I can't be a bird- watcher; I don't have their dedication, or amazing cameras for close- up spying on the private lives of wild things; I don't kee...

Earth Day

Before the advent of the pandemic and subsequent Great Quietness of the Lockdown - just four weeks ago but in a different world - we were engaged ...