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Forget the expensive expressions of love, Valentine's Day is all about the personal and meaningful touches. And this year you may need to ce
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Posted in Valentine's Day , High days & holidays 27/01/2026 19:33:28, 0 comments |
Next to the New Year and St Andrew's day, the Burns night supper on 25 January is the most important day in the calendar of a traditional Sc
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Posted in High days & holidays 12/01/2026 12:06:00, 0 comments |
Long before living history shows hit our screens, one of our team would enter a time machine and sample a war-time diet. She was inspired b
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Posted in New Year 02/01/2026 00:00:00, 0 comments |
Despite marmalade rapidly disappearing from the British breakfast table, the arrival of Seville oranges every January is eagerly awaited by
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Posted in Preserving 28/12/2025 10:55:22, 0 comments |
A rich fruit cake is long associated with Christmas; heavily ladened with marzipan and icing. True traditionalists would add a little brush
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Posted in Christmas 02/12/2025 17:24:49, 0 comments |
Stir it up Sunday has always been the last Sunday before Advent and takes its name from the book of common prayer. It was when families came
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Posted in Christmas 14/11/2025 18:52:41, 0 comments |
The modern day celebration of bonfire night appears to have originated in the late Victorian times when organised displays started to be the
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Posted in Bonfire night 28/10/2025 21:56:20, 1 comments |
Wouldn't it be fun to turn the clock back 70 to 100 odd years and see how Halloween was celebrated by our forebears. Of course, we have comm
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10/10/2025 00:00:00, 0 comments |
With all the talk of money-saving packed lunches, it got us thinking about the history of the sandwich - or rather how sandwich fillings hav
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