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Thanks for the crazy Christmas rush. We’ll mostly be wearing slippers and wellies now and hope you get to put your feet up too! We’re back in the studio on the 4th January and will be dispatching orders promptly on our return. Lots of love and best wishes for the new year –MWAH!

A Christmas baby, little Elodie Grace joins the Sussex clan – just fantastic!

The bump is now a baby and what a delightful little creature he is too. Congratulations to Ysella and Rich on the birth of ‘boy’ (if it was good enough for Tarzan…) on 30th November. Name to be confirmed. So excited for you!

This is ‘Bowie mad’ Dean at his surprise 40th on Saturday – there aren’t many men who can get away with a skin tight lycra jumpsuit and platforms – but you rocked!

We’ve been pals for over thirty years and miraculously these two managed to get pregnant within two weeks of each other. I’ve been hassling them for a photo opportunity for months and they finally relented. I’m going to nail my colours to the mast and predict a girl for Laura (left) and boy for Ysella (right), more reliable forecasts and name suggestions are welcome.

Happy birthday Dad. Thanks for bringing me up to be batty enough to swim in the bracing sea with you at the weekend – once submerged, it was bliss. x

Hello to all those with reassuringly achy limbs who ran the Bedford 10k yesterday, we certainly made the most of the free tea and cake afterwards. Thanks Adrian for the pre-race pep talk and setting the pace! It has been a few years since my half marathon days, but thankfully I managed to get round in 50 minutes, didn’t want to set the bar too high for the Standalone 10k in October (yeah right!).

This just arrived in the post from the rellies who are holidaying in the Lake District. They know I love this gingerbread and the packaging is delightful too. A great example of ‘beauty in simplicity’, a bit of greaseproof and a lacky band, job done.

Ha, caught you out Granny! My Mum (aka Granny) has our blog as her home page and she’ll be embarrassed that she is in the spotlight. Well this one is for you to say thanks for being such a wonderful lady, for looking after Wilf so I could get the orders out this week and for teaching me how to play golf in the dark the other evening. I love you.

Also, thanks for going on a jaunt around the country lanes and coming home with fresh Whitwell watercress and runner beans. The watercress could blow you head off it is that potent, but it looks nice! I made a smiley(ish) face for you. x

This is probably very dull if you’re not into digging. But I’d like to show my Brother Simon my spuds. We teamed up in January to order our allotment seeds, onion sets and chitting potatoes and in March I gave up my weekend lie-ins for 7am digging sessions at the allotment. Sounds mad, but there is something great about frosty mornings when everyone else is in bed. Five months on, and I have 15lbs of spuds to show for it, oh yeah. Was it worth it? Mmm… I think having an allotment is more about the process than the harvest. One chilly morning the site was deserted apart from myself and a very friendly pheasant who munched on the worms I’d unearthed, it was a tranquil (and back breaking) experience.

I now have a little helper, but seem to spend most of my time fishing him out of the water butt.