During the winter months, when the last of the flowers have faded and the leaves have fallen, everything in the garden can look a bit bare and uninspired. This year we’re planning to be proactive and install some wall art in our garden so we’ll have something nice to look…
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I was recently asked to try some maraschino flavour cocktail cherries from Opies. I’m not a big fan of things like cherries in cocktails, as I think they just make it harder to drink the drink! However, I was sure that this little jar of prettily-coloured cherries would be useful,…
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We love a bonfire night party – it’s the last opportunity of the year to hold an outside event! The British weather doesn’t always get on board at this time of year, so set the scene with lots of garden lights, hot drinks, cosy wraps, cushions – and somewhere to…
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A garden arbour is a shady nook which can offer shelter and privacy. They can be any shape or size you like, but usually consist of some sort of vertical structure with a climbing plant grown over them. You can work them into your garden however you like, putting an…
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What is neo-mint? Here at Cosy Home, we like to stay on top of the current trends – but this one is working quite far ahead! UK-based online trend forecasting agency WGSN are predicting that a new colour, neo-mint, will be the hot colour of spring/summer 2020. Their team of…
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As some of you may know, I’m lucky enough to have a house in south west France, a former farm house that’s around 150 years old. Part of the fun has been furnishing it with junk shop finds of the right sort of age for the house, and sometimes that’s…
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We review the beer and food matching masterclass experience from Red Letter Days. Raising a glass was our reviewer Sara Walker. “This experience included choosing three tasting dishes from the menu and having them matched with beers by an expert. While I was looking forward to it, I thought the…
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Around 10 years ago, when we bought our holiday home in Gascony, we were faced with the same dilemma as most other people: what to do about furniture when we’d already spent most of the budget buying the house? The quick, easy and short-term answer was making many trips to…
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