News from L&F

It’s so nearly here!  Easter Sunday; the end of Lent and of abstinence for some of us – a day of great religious significance for those of a Christian persuasion, and of huge chocolate-based significance for anyone who chooses.  Which...

So: to recap.  We had moved, lock stock and barrel, to a part of the world we didn’t know, full of strangers, in the middle of a record-breaking heatwave. After two weeks of us looking at the view and revelling...

It’s SO nearly Easter now, that we thought the time was right to introduce those of you unfortunate enough never to have met one of these before, to the uber traditional Simnel Cake.  The 11 balls of marzipan on the...

It has been an epically wet, working week in Argyll.  The burst pipes of winter 2023 (not a typo sadly) ruined a bathroom and a bedroom and it has taken this long to get it all fixed, largely because the...

So March is half done and we've had a flurry of new products and plans here at L&F.  We’ve shown you Napkins, Tablecloths, Tea Light Holders, Candles and delicious new scents and we have more to come – if you...

Bye Bye Pancake Day – Hello Mothering Sunday!  These celebrations seem to come thicker and faster than ever and we’re up to our ears in gift ideas for this one, which is only a couple of weeks away.  But if...

Don’t you just love it when people with far less to do than you keep telling you how busy they are?  As though you aren’t, and are therefore a lesser being? For a long time when we first made the...

Well, nearly.  Last year we gave you the American style pillowy ones, and you loved them.  This year we’re going for the more refined, delicate little papery thin fellas of my youth – and having canvassed your opinion on Insta...

With an eye to the future, and in the name of ‘getting ahead’, we are delighted this week to have our new range of gorgeous hand block printed napkins ready.  As a child, my family had wonderful bright red ones...

The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that this week’s blog is in fact 24hrs late.  Nice though it would be to assert that this is because Isobel and I have been digging ourselves out from under a huge pile...

It feels entirely wrong to be writing about our new Spring designs and products, as yet another icy blast descends on L&F HQ here on the edge of the steppes. There’s nothing much between us and Kiev, and February and...

God was clearly having yet another laugh at our expense.  He had seen fit to send us two conveniently sedentary offspring : first was a hideously ill child who didn't walk until he was two, and then had to be...

Hang on – is it really only a month today since Christmas?  That can’t be true – so, so much has happened and changed in just four weeks.  We’ve had snow, floods, some blue skies, real cold and a few...

Well, blame this one on us.  Isobel’s great whinge has long been that we don’t get proper frost here in the bottom left hand corner of Lincolnshire.  Rain, broiling sun, but never really deep, snapping frost. So imagine how unsympathetic we...

Well, ladies and gents.  A very happy new year to you all, and welcome back to the world of L&F.  What a time we had of it at the end of 2024: the Aga had a hissy fit, and we...

(Given the time of year, you know the rest.)  Well ladies and gentlemen, we all survived my birthday and the clearing up and now we’re into Christmas.  The last of the L&F packages are packaged and despatched, and I’m off...

Well, the day is almost here.  Tomorrow, dear Reader, is my birthday.  Not just any old birthday – a BIG one.  Huge.  Ends in a zero and starts with a 6, and if one more person tells me ‘it’s just...

Storm Darragh, ladies and gentlemen.  As I write this, safe in rural Lincolnshire on the eastern side of this fair land, I still hear the wind tearing it up outside and the rain rattling onto the windows.  For those on...

Who knew?!  You ARE interested in how it all began!  Well, you asked for it ….. “Children properly managed” my mother always said, “can be made to pay.”  As I’m one of five spanning twelve years, I should have realised...

Tomorrow, as I’m sure you all know, is Stir up Sunday, the day when families traditionally gather to ‘stir up’ the Christmas pud.  Here, we’re starting to wish we hadn’t spent so long lovingly establishing  the family traditions over the...

Last weekend we had a wonderful two days selling in Fakenham, at the Norfolk Artisans Christmas Fair.  It was fabulous to be back in the mix and out in the crisp (that’s a euphemism if ever there was one) East...