News from L&F

Two birthdays down, one and a wedding to go.  The bride is British Nigerian, and L&F HQ in this quiet corner of rural Lincolnshire will shortly shake with noise, music, colour, traditional dress and unfeasibly spicy food – we can’t...

Dare we mention the weather?  12 days to go until You Know What, and we’re starting to look up hopefully when we open the curtains in the morning.  I keep telling Isobel that Rainclouds should be her next design but...

August is always a busy month at L&F HQ and in 2023, it’s more so than ever.  Three birthdays (the first of which is today) and this year a giant, two day family wedding!   Forgive then, if a slight preoccupation...

For the last twenty eight or so years, at around this time, I have decamped to Argyll for weeks on end with first one, then two, then three small Irvines.  It still feels strange not to be tied to school...

Please welcome … ‘Potted Shrubs’.  Our newest, freshest design springs from the garden and shrubbery at L&F HQ, where gnarly old favourites in beds are surrounded by new youngsters, looking pretty in pots while waiting their turn to shine.  Luscious...

… in time to see how our newest collection, ‘Shrubs’, is progressing.  And the news is good: the prototypes are gorgeous, and our manufacturers are doing their usual terrific job, so we hope to have the range available on the...

All the way from … the Lofoten Islands!  No, I hadn’t heard of them either, but it turns out that they’re way up north in the land of the midnight sun.  Last year was a Significant Birthday for Mr Irvine...

Don’t tell anyone, but L&F HQ is echoingly empty this weekend.  Lancashire beckons, for the wedding of a family friend, and excitement is high.  The groom is reputed to be nearly as fab as the bride, and her parents are...

The Rutland Show is tomorrow, and the weather forecast is fine, and we’re packed and ready … what could possiblygo wrong?  Thetford last month involved a midnight trip for one of us to A&E and we’re determined that no such...

Here we go again: we’re planning our next outing, this time to the Rutland County Fair.  In eight days we’ll be set up and selling in the gorgeous market town of Oakham: come and see us, one and all.   Our...

How will you spend today?  Watching the historic events unfold, basking in the pomp and circumstance of a state occasion the likes of which we will never have seen?  Or is that totally not your thing – perhaps you’d rather...

Coo!  Well that was over in a flash: time flies when you’re busy and having fun: thank you to all who came to see and support us in lovely Thetford.  What a hoot – it’s so exciting to see for...

It’s happening!  It’s day one of the East Anglian Game & Country Fair (and Polly and Mr L&F’s 34th  wedding anniversary, by the way).  How better to spend the weekend than here in the sun? After a somewhat stressful week...

Excitement builds as the Coronation approaches, and to commemorate such a landmark event, Lochs & Fens is proud to present …. Crowns and Carriages.  Our newest range, depicting surely the two most iconic elements of the ceremony to come.  Royalist...

With Easter on the way, how easy would it be to churn out chicks and eggs?  Not our way here at L&F though.  We sometimes feel we only ever take the trickier route, but seasonality isn’t everything and cliché certainly isn’t.