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Squirrel Spotting!
They’re agile, cute and furry, and we’re nuts about them! Red squirrels are one of the most loved animals in the UK.
With their distinctive russet fur, tufted ears and twitching tail, a red squirrel is always a captivating sight in the forests of the UK.
Yet these flashes of red are becoming scarcer, with the current population is estimated to be only 160,000.
Support these adorable little creatures with Red Squirrel Week. There are events at selected red squirrel sites across the UK. See http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/?section=events:autumn:redsquirrelweek for details.
Win a Wildlife Book
To celebrate Red Squirrel Week we have 10 copies of Britain’s Favourite Animals to give away.
If you’ve had a long day out in the cold squirrel spotting you will need a quick and warming dinner Good Food, Fast: Dairy Cookbook has the answer: Try the truly comforting Quick Cottage Pie.
Win one of ten copies of Good Food, Fast the latest Dairy Cookbook
To celebrate the launch of the latest Dairy Coobook we are giving away 10 copies of Good Food, Fast.
Win a copy of Good Food, Fast Dairy Cookbook
Good Food, Fast is packed with delicious, stress-free recipes that can be whipped up in just 30 minutes or less!
With 116 recipes that cleverly use store-cupboard staples as well as combinations of fresh and frozen ingredients, Good Food, Fast ensures you can create something tempting even under pressure. Great if unexpected guests have dropped in or your day has not quite gone to plan.
Click here to enter the prize draw.
Good Food, Fast Dairy Cookbook is priced at £9.99 (plus £2 P&P).
To order a copy or for further information call 0845 0948 128, speak to your local milkman, or visit www.dairydiary.co.uk
Celebrate Summer
It’s a celebration of summer this week with Midsummer’s Day on Thursday and the Summer Solstice today. Midsummer’s Day is primarily a Celtic fire festival, which represented the middle of summer.
It dates back several millennia, and many stone circles (such as Stone Henge) are aligned to the sunrise on this day.
Midsummer fires would be lit all over the countryside, and it was customary for people to jump through the fires, folklore suggesting that the height reached by the most athletic jumper would be the height of that year’s harvest. After Christianity was adopted in Britain, the festival became known as St John’s Day; the birthday of St John the Baptist. Traditionally St John’s Eve was seen as a time when fairies were thought to be at their most powerful (hence Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream).
Back to reality and modern life, I don’t think too many of us will be jumping fires on Thursday, but we can enjoy today’s Summer Solstice. And what a glorious day for it! The sun is shining, and hedgerows and gardens bursting with flowers.
Why not make the most of the extra daylight and make the Foliage Fountain – it’s an elegant hanging basket and it only takes an hour. And for such minimal effort, what a result! The vivid colours will brighten up any porch or doorway.
To celebrate summer, we are giving away two portable gardening sets
Each portable set contains a handy pouch with a fork, trowel, dipper and secateurs. It takes just a few seconds to enter online – so why not do it now? Good luck.
Project taken from Seasonal Garden Ideas now available from the Dairy Diary store.
Wonderful weekend weather
Did you enjoy the fabulous weather over the weekend? Many people did, evidenced by the shortage of barbeque fuel in some shops!
Well, following the best weekend of the year to date, it may be unrealistic to expect the same for the bank holiday weekend.
But, if it does turn out to be a pleasant weekend, what better way to enjoy it than to get out and enjoy your garden. This weekend we will definitely try the Peppers in a Pot mini-project from Seasonal Garden Ideas. And enjoy a leisurely barbeque with friends – fingers-crossed!
Are you lucky enough to have tickets to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week? I am envious. If you haven’t got tickets the bad news is that the show is sold out. But you can follow the show on BBC – here’s the schedule.
Fancy winning a copy of the fabulous Around Britain Dairy Cookbook? Simply click here to enter. Good luck.
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