VE75 Celebrations

As a Nation we celebrated the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe and the great sacrifice of our heroes together at home, with picnics, home-made bunting, home-baked goods and socially-distanced street parties with neighbours. As I am isolating alone, when a friend told me about Garlands’ cream tea delivery offer, my plans were sealed. I

Book Club: The Restaurant: a History of Eating Out

For anyone like me, missing restaurants and eating out with family & friends, Radio 4’s current book of the week is William Sitwell’s The Restaurant:A History of Eating Out. Read by Lesley Sharp, this audiobook is presented in easily digestible 15 min episodes (see what I did there!?) that chart the history of public dining from

Dalwood Vineyard

Today is #theBIGenglishwinegoodfriday, so here is one of my faves (though maybe I’m biased!). Dalwood Vineyard is located in East Devon on the outskirts of the village of the same name and is run by a small cooperative of friends who came up with the idea over a few pints in the local! I consider

Riverford Deliveries

Riverford Organic delivers seasonal fruit and veg boxes to order, straight to your door. And the amazing news…they are still delivering to current customers in these uncertain times! (And if you’re not a current customer you can sign up to their waiting list). Riverford’s Seasonal boxes come in different sizes- I know we all probably

Ethical Meat-Free Burgers

The other day we tried some ethical environmentally friendly Plant-Based patties and made delicious vegan burgers. Coming across the environmentally friendly W/O Meat products in our local Lidl was what inspired me to re-kindle this blog for 2020, and then Coronavirus came for us and so the blog has taken on a slightly different flavour

Book Club: Breakfast London

Bianca Bridges‘ Breakfast London: Where Real Londoners Eat is the perfect antidote to being stuck at home and missing our favourite flat whites and weekend brunch spots during social distancing.  Her book mirrors her gorgeous blog outlining the best secret, local, hipster breakfast and brunch spots in London. It is split nicely into different areas of London

Indie Hampers and Pop-up Deliveries

This morning we received a heavenly-scented package in the post- a bag of roasted coffee beans from Land’s End Coffee company.  Due to having lots of wholesale orders cancelled as a result of the Covid shutdown, the company had a load of spare 1kg bags of beans, which they offered to coffee enthusiasts at a