Then it’s off to Tenbury, and lunch, before visiting the market. This is much as I saw it this morning – not much new material, though some is still arriving, on the back of a variety of unlikely vehicles (including a 1974 Austin 1100 Vanden Plas – you don’t see many of those around these days). Some filming at the market, which already has an air of sadness over it – as this could be […]

Matt examining the (limited) catch (click to enlarge)

Trying out my new ‘Musical Mistletoe’ today. Bought on Ebay, where it’s being sold by various sellers – some describing it as wonderful, others warning you only to buy it for your worst enemy. Having tried it, I concur with the worst enemy camp – it is truly awful, and probably the worst taste mistletoe items I’ve ever seen (and that’s saying something…) . Basically it’s a bunch of plastic mistletoe (modelled on the American […]

Saturday – and another look at the Daily Mail Weekend supplement for Monty Don’s mistletoe article. And it’s in this week – complete with a picture of genuine English mistletoe (taken by yours truly in me mum’s garden a fortnight ago – but I won’t give up the dayjob for a photography career just yet…). Was it worth the wait? Well, sort of, it’s a good balanced piece talking about mistletoe in the British context, […]

Today’s Times has a report on yesterday’s holly and msitletoe sales at Tenbury – majoring on the glut of berries and material for both plants and how this is pushing down prices. This is a curious tradition of the Times – prices and tonnage for msitletoe are a regular feature – and similar stats can be found in editions dating right back to the 19th century – though mostly relating to the import trade. I’m […]