Was the promised ‘Barbecue summer’ just PR puffery?

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Our two week holiday in Devon is looming, and we’ve been poring over weather forecasts with growing alarm. Listening to Radio 4 this morning, any remaining hope of sunny days making sandcastles well and truly evaporated.  My brain was too fuddled from a night calming a wailing child to make sense ...

Peppermint goes picnicking

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Apparently no-one takes their lunch hour anymore; well, last week Peppermint paid tribute to the ‘lunch hour’ with a good old fashioned picnic. Peppermint ventured out of the office and straight into the great outdoors of Dunham Massey to sample the gorgeous (and most probably short-lived) weather.