The in-house mixologist at Slingsby Gin has created a series of fabulous festive cocktail recipes for Christmas and the upcoming party season. Slingsby Gin uses 24 botanicals to create its award-winning product, which is the only gin to feature grapefruit as the leading and only citrus ingredient as its base.

As an entrepreneur and Middle East coach, Corina Goetz is a frequent traveller. Here’s how she manages ‘mum guilt’ and combines family life with work.

The British public has spoken: Christmas jumpers, advent calendars and crackers are still in, but you can ease on buying yet another Christmas wreath, more baubles or stockings. This is according to a new study from a packaging supplier, Carrier Bag Shop, which analysed online searches for 31 common festive items since 2020.

Whether you decorate your home in November or December, every family has its own unique way of making their space feel festive. Thanks to platforms such as TikTok, new decor trends and tips are circulated each Christmas. The decor theme currently making a comeback is the classic and ‘tacky’ 90s Christmas - but why is this happening?

Are you looking for a moment of pure chocolate indulgence? If so, why not make it a Masons Chocolate Vodka? Masons has introduced the 'smooth and decadent' chocolate tipple, with its deep cocoa notes and a creamy finish as the perfect tipple to sip and savour on a cold winter evening!

How many times have you heard that a restaurant that is slightly off the beaten track has been ‘a find’? More often than not, the teams that run these smaller restaurants in outlying villages or on the periphery of towns are consistently successful at demonstrating excellence in their ethos around providing well-sourced ingredients, customer focus, and being innovative without being emphatic.

With the festive period well underway, new research has revealed the Christmas songs that can distract you while driving. Research by Spotify suggests that songs between 50 and 80 beats per minute can boost creativity and productivity by inducing an “alpha state,” leading to a more focused and alert mindset.

Keeping chickens on the smallholding is an absolute must. They are fantastic at keeping down bugs and pests in the vegetable patch and orchard, producing eggs, and being delightful to watch. However, like all poultry keepers, I am always alert to the possibility of red mites. Poultry red mites are external parasites that affect chickens.

National Listening Day, marked on November 29, encourages people to lend their ears to friends, families and even strangers who might be struggling. It can be hard to know what to say to someone who is suffering from mental ill health. You do not want to ignore the illness, but sometimes you just do not know if you are saying the right or wrong thing.

As Winter brings the cold, rain and darker evenings to the UK, Tefal has researched some of Britain’s favourite winter dishes that bring warmth and comfort throughout the cooler months, and some of the recipes to try at home.

One burglary is recorded every four minutes in November, with autumn being statistically the worst month for burglaries. As clocks go back and daylight hours shrink, homes are left more vulnerable - especially with the pre-Christmas rush providing perfect cover for intruders.

We are in the throes of moving house, with an imminent completion date, and I can honestly say that this is one of the most difficult things I have ever done, not least because of all the packing up of our house's contents but also because of the additional worries packing up a smallholding brings with it.