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Although the British weather is, as always, four seasons in one day, our feathered friends are on their annual hunt for nesting sites. For all those tea lovers out there, this Betty tea pot is just the perfect nesting option – it comes with pre drilled holes, and you can find it at the splendid shop ” The worm that turned”. I can think [...]

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For those of you familiar with the film “The Quiet Man”, you’ll recall the scene when Mary Kate, in her very practical Irish manner, chastises Sean for not growing a cabbage or a potato in the garden of their new home. But no, Sean was creating the rose garden his mother described, when she dreamed [...]

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It’s such a perfect day! Having arrived in some splendour aboard the Northern Belle, the RHS flower show at Chelsea is more than a fitting destination, but how to see it all?! Here are a few of Tea with Mary Kate’s favourite things: Favourite Stand in the Great Pavilion – Sweet Tea Cafe I confess [...]

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. So wrote Alexander Pope as long ago as 1733. I believe hope is one of the most precious gifts – it can lift us at our darkest moments, it can sustain us, allow us to believe, to continue. Without it, [...]

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Delicate snowdrops herald the start of spring Spring feels finally like it has finally sprung after what has been a long and hard winter. The snowdrops are braving their beautiful heads into the brighter and brighter sun. I love the spring, the light after the dark, everything is fresh and green, full of hope & [...]

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