On Facebook yesterday I suggested the utterly made-up  ‘shortage of mistletoe because of cold wet weather’ story would appear in the Mail next. I was wrong.  It’s in the Express…  And they’ve already morphed it into something even worse – apparently “Kissing under the mistletoe may become a thing of the past” and “Driving rain and cold forced bees to hide in their hives, leaving many mistletoe flowers unpollinated when they bloomed” All of which is untrue […]

Lots of mistletoe stories beginning to appear in the media now. I’ll focus on just two stories today – firstly a feel-good story from the Ideal Home Exhibition at Earls Court, where they’ve been staging a Mistletoe Kissathon today. It’s not clear what they think that is, but it sounds good, and is apparently attempting to make a new World Record for the biggest ‘simultaneous kiss’. They’ve wheeled out some celebs – Myleene Klass, Suzi Perry, Gino D’Acampo, […]

Time for a quick round-up of this year’s mistletoe events at Tenbury Wells.  The organising of the Mistletoe Festival this season has been taken on by a new organisation, the Tenbury Mistletoe Association, a move which is probably very good, as it gives a proper structure to the event for the first time since the original Tenbury English Mistletoe Enterprise group (now disbanded) set it up and ran it from 2005 to 2007ish. And so far it’s […]