The real deal: your Christmas tree guide (and some Norwegian traditions)
Our freshly cut trees go on sale 1 December. Here’s how to choose the best one for your home and keep it looking good right through till
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Brighten up your Christmas!
It’s over a month to Christmas. Don’t panic, we’ve got lots in store to make this Noel extra special. Save the date: Trees on sale 1st December
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Vive la France: Ouessant sheep come calling
We’ve been feeling very Francophile all week. It started with an order for some hay racks and foot shears for a flock of Ouessant (Ushant) sheep in
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The heat is on
As Guy Fawkes weekend approaches, it’s the perfect time to get out in the garden and do a little burning. All those prunings, thorny stems and weeds
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Peanuts, pumpkins and pies
The clocks go BACK an hour this weekend and that always make me stop and think: soon it’ll be December 21, the shortest day, start of the winter
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Leave autumn to us
The Mamas & Papas had a hit song about it, John Keats wrote an ode to it and Americans call it something completely different. Autumn is here. Or Fall if you’re from
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Shed sale now on: he shed, she shed or we shed?
Should I get a shed? You wonder about it then end up wondering how you ever lived without the extra space, place to store stuff and
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Tubtrug: bucket, basket or box? You decide
You know how it is, there are jobs to do but before you get started you need the right bucket, box or basket. You spend ages
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Soggy September. Jobs for the garden
In the garden it’s been a month for waterproofs and water butts. One minute, glorious sunshine then the sky darkens and the heavens open. Time to pop
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Your guide to the perfect wooden gate
There’s something about the click of a gate. Remember as a kid when you waited for the postman on your birthday? Or the much anticipated arrival of
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Hats off! Bridport Hat Festival
Tomorrow is officially ‘Haturday’. To the uninitiated, it’s the start of Bridport’s Hat Festival on Saturday 2 September. The whole town turns out in an array
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Our winning Melplash Show team
We’ve been at the Melplash Show for thirty years. We first had a stand back in 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, hurricane force winds
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