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A few gift suggestions for those maddening friends and relatives who have everything:

A jar of Christmas Chutney and a jar of Boxing Day Chutney. Festive cranberries and apples. £3.95 each.

At least one of our beautiful coconut shell snack dishes. Christmas colours of red, green, gold and silver. Or what about dusky bronze or kingfisher blue? £9.00 each.   Bamboo cheese knives. Stainless steel; dishwasher-proof; a comfortable handle in the shape of a bamboo stem. £7.95 each.   Parkin Biscuits. Seriously good; seriously ginger. £2.95 a box.   Please remember that we have a £20 minimum order and this means that we can't despatch just one chutney or knife. Some cheese to go with it,   Read more...

Back in the summer we posted an article about August 1914 and included a photo of a wonderful field of poppies in bloom just outside Tetbury. Whether or not you will be wearing a poppy this year for Remembrance Sunday or Armistice Day, here's a gallery of poppy photos taken in that same field. 

Usually we try not to scare our customers too much, but let's make an exception for Halloween, now that the evenings are darker and the nights are longer. Here's a verse from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to put everyone in the right mood:

'Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him