News from L&F

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...

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...

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...

Sad though we are to see the back of Halloween and therefore all things pumpkin, we’re SO EXCITED that it’s now properly November and that the run-up to the L&F Christmas can begin! Our renewed and refreshed website is laden...

‘Why’ we are sometimes asked ‘Lincolnshire?’  Well apart from being a bit rude about a beautiful and largely timeless part of the country, that’s a very good question, and we’re asked it – or a variation on the theme –...

So now that we’ve all gone entirely state-side, and we have learned to embrace our American friends’ version of Halloween with all it’s spookiness and sugar, what to do with the innerds of the pumpkins you’ve assiduously carved?  Simple.  Rinse,...

I’ve been in trouble this week.  My last blog exceeded our self-set limit by almost 100 words.  (Isn’t that the problem with Christmas though?  Excess.)  So, back to the briefer everyday story of rural folk.  It has been a very...

Yet more excitement at L&F HQ this week as our Christmas stock arrives, in a flurry of deliveries, phone calls and (whisper it) real paper paperwork. Callie the L&F pooch has been on hyper-alert, warning us of incoming traffic, racing...

Have you seen our new Vases?  Oh my life.  We’re pairing them with the bang on trendy faux foliage that seems to be all the rage – and we do see why.  We had a great time finding these lovelies...

The leaves are falling at L&F HQ, and nothing makes us feel more autumnal.  Except perhaps our divine little felt pumpkins, which we’re doing again this year in homage to our own homegrown offerings: if you could only see the...