News from L&F

We have two weeks, ladies and gentlemen, until F Day.  The Humby Hall Summer Fair 2025 is on 6 July and we are feeling the pressure.  We have twenty stands of local small businesses coming, Alpacas, a judged dog show,...

I feel we have arrived.  We are Lincolnshire’s answer to the Beckhams, without doubt ...

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...

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...

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...

THANK YOU, to everyone who sundanced last week!  What a cracking afternoon we had: the sun may not have been dangerously hot, but it didn’t pour – which, this year, is a definite win.  Businesses sold stock, people ate and...

No, not to Christmas – to the inaugural Late Summer Fair, here at L&F HQ.  The excitement is definitely building as we prepare to host 15 stalls of local businesses in a final flurry of buying and selling before we...

Well, it has been an epically wet month in Argyll.  We and the land are truly and biblically, spectacularly sodden – from where we are, right on the edge of a sea loch, you see the next belt of rain...

And here we go again.  August: the most expensive and fattening birthday month of the year here at L&F.  Three male birthdays to be squeezed in, all (rather satisfyingly) on multiples of 5.  The fifth, tenth, and twenty-fifth to be...

Since last we spoke, dear Reader, the deed has been done.  Our automated inventory has been tested and not found wanting, which is both a relief and a slight disappointment: it’s always fun to find fault.  As I moved boxes,...

Ian the Excellent Painter has been again.  L&F HQ is a bit like the Forth Road Bridge before they invented a self-restoring paint, or whatever they did.  No sooner has he finished than he has to start again – and...

It’s too easy to be distracted into it from L&F business and Isobel is patience personified (except when she isn’t, which is when it gets scary).  

Right.  That’s it.  It’s properly May now, and as believers in the power of positive thought, we are determined that the rain has finished: enough.  And to celebrate?  Well CAKE, obviously.  Or in this instance, cakey muffins – we find...

We’re so excited – you love our cushion covers!  You spoke, and we listened, and so we’ve extended our range to include the gorgeous Lorne Stripe, Humby Fern and Appin.  Rather selfishly we’ve snaffled a handful to adorn our outdoor...