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Review of Polly’s Petals and their edible flower kits
Review of Polly’s Petals and their edible flower kits. I am a huge fan of flowers… growing in the garden, cut in a vase, dried or edible. I love the bright colours, the smell, the shapes, the textures, all of it! Imagine my joy when Polly’s Petals contacted me to tell me about their edible […]
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Review of Sid & Nancy Cooking Academy
Review of Sid & Nancy Cooking Academy and their cooking kits for kids. I remember discovering a love of cooking when I was given my own recipe book and it became something that was for me too, not just something my parents did. Sid & Nancy Cooking Academy is this generation’s cooking books for children… […]
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Review of Bosk Coffee Roasters
Review of Bosk Coffee – a Coffee roaster based in Weymouth Bosk Coffee Roastery is a small Roastery nestled into the Dorset countryside, founded and run by Louise and John Burton. Bosk Coffee are a coffee roaster that specialise in sustainable, speciality coffee and care deeply about the social impact of their coffee, right from […]
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Review of Jurassic Coast Farm Shop and their new Farm Shop Delivery
Review of Jurassic Coast Farm Shop and their new Farm Shop Delivery service. With autumn here, the nights drawing in and the temperature dropping, finding ways to not have to venture outside can be very tempting. Top that off with a global Pandemic (and a touch of panic buying beginning to empty supermarket shelves again) […]
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Pub Restaurant Review of The Fox Inn at Ansty
Pub Restaurant Review of the Fox Inn at Ansty If there was a spiritual centre of Dorset, it would be at the junction of five ancient tracks, called The Dorsetshire Gap. From the middle ages, this was an important junction, joining tracks of the ridgeway, with roads to the North. OK, maybe not truly spiritual, […]
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Dorset’s Coffee Roasters
Dorset’s Coffee Roasters I am a huge fan of coffee and have personally spent time learning and tasting the beautiful complexities in different coffee flavour profiles. During lockdown, I took the opportunity and the simple pleasure of the routine of grinding the beans and making a fresh coffee every day, to try some of Dorset’s […]
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Review of Cafe Bosconova
Review of Cafe Bosconova Cafe Bosconova has always been a favourite for breakfast but what with all that has happened this year, it wasn’t until someone suggested we visit that I remembered just how great their breakfasts really are. Cafe Bosconova is situated on the pedestrianised section of Boscombe high street and they have really […]
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Tasty Fruit Crumble Recipe
Tasty Fruit Crumble Recipe I recently popped to Sopley Farm with my teenage boys, looking for something fun to do in the sunshine. We ended up spending a happy hour picking some fruit and I set about making some jam and putting together this tasty fruit crumble recipe. Fruit crumbles are a simple pudding, designed […]
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Dorset’s Bakeries
There is something special about popping to the local Bakery and buying a fresh loaf of bread or a sweet treat, especially as a treat in this Lockdown season and the queues around the block are proof that many of us have enjoyed a little freshly baked goodness recently. Since the start of 2020, there […]
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Review of Flo and Frankie’s Fudge
Review of Flo and Frankie’s Fudge Fudge is an absolute treat for me, a little bit of sugary heaven. I am currently avoiding lactose to sort out some dietary issues so when I was approached by Flo and Frankie’s Fudge, I was DELIGHTED to find out that they also offered vegan fudge! Flo and Frankie’s […]
