Belvoir Fruit Farms
Street party pictures galore!
9th March 2012
We’ve LOVED all the pictures that you’ve sent in for our street party photo competition – thank you. There have been some absolute classics where everyone is having such fun that you just want to step through the photograph and join the festivities. There have also been some slightly left-field entries, like the pic of … [more…]
Lent: one week in and 6 weeks still to go…
29th February 2012
We’re wearing tin hats here at the moment; the boss has given up coffee for Lent. He’s been an eight-cups-a-day man for the last 25 years and going cold turkey is proving quite a challenge – for all of us. We haven’t banned him from drinking tea – thank heavens, because otherwise there would probably … [more…]
Just a little bit of rhubarb
1st February 2012
The first of this year’s food fairs kicks off in three weeks’ time with the Wakefield Festival of Food, Drink and Rhubarb (24th-26th February). We love the idea of a rhubarb festival – it’s almost as mad as the Pontefract Liquorice Festival. Wakefield is the country’s foremost producer of rhubarb – in fact, its Yorkshire … [more…]
Introducing our first Lovely Awards winners
24th January 2012
Over the past few weeks you’ve been very busy nominating some amazing foodie people and places for our Lovely Awards. There are even a few places near us that we had never heard of until the nominations came in – we can’t wait to rush off and visit them. It just shows, you might think … [more…]
The ideal cocktail & mocktail mix
23rd December 2011
Christmas celebrations are often awash with fairly mediocre mulled wine – mediocre in the sense that it tastes great at the time, but clobbers you the next day with an unwarranted hangover. We’ve come to the conclusion that one of the best ways to be the hostess (or host) with the mostest is to come … [more…]