Belvoir Fruit Farms
Four more diamond necklaces left to win
29th May 2012
We’ve just made one of those lovely – and rare – phone calls where we get to contact someone and tell them that they have won a £2,000 diamond pendant! It’s a fantastic way to end the week. We’ve still got four more of these fabulous necklaces, designed by award-winning British jeweller Alex Monroe, to … read more ›
The butterfly effect
25th May 2012
Imagine having the wingspan of a beermat and weighing less than a gram, yet still having the stamina to fly over 1,800 miles and reach speeds of up to 30mph. It’s almost too hard to conceive of, yet North America’s Monarch butterfly ticks all these boxes. Each year, millions of these brightly coloured, fragile, little … read more ›
Picnic perfection!
21st May 2012
Apparently, it’s 250 years since the modern incarnation of the sandwich was invented. It’s beginnings are not enormously salubrious – the Earl of Sandwich regularly requested cold meat in two slices of bread so that his cards wouldn’t get greasy when he was gambling; fellow cribbage players started to copy him by demanding “the same … read more ›
How to grow a weather proof garden
10th May 2012
Floods, hosepipe bans and unseasonably late frosts – the last six weeks have been upside down weather-wise. It’s had a rotten effect on all our gardens round here. So, we’ve been picking the brains of our friends in the horticultural world over how to create a weather-proof garden that is also insect friendly. Good, old-fashioned … read more ›
The great diamond giveaway!
4th May 2012
How’s this for a silly question – would you like to win a beautiful, sparkling diamond necklace worth £2,000? Yes? Well, all you need to do is look out for bottles of our Elderflower cordial and Ginger cordial. From now until July these delicious drinks will have a promotional collar on them giving you the … read more ›