One of the abiding memories of my student youth was hitch hiking through France, pitching up at St Tropez as the sun set on another glorious day and wondering why they’d seen fit to celebrate my arrival with a quite magnifique firework display on the beach. Only when checking a discarded copy of Le Monde…
Tag Archives: Belvoir Fruit Farms
June 28th, 2010
Competition Time:
It’s child’s play!
Win one of five Yeo Valley Organic hampers
Believe it or not – Belvoir Farms blog fans – that mucky pup you see before you can help you clean up in our tasty new Yeo Valley competition.
July 2nd, 2009
Competition time: The Great Belvoir Buffet!
Plenty of good news around at the moment: It’s our twenty-fifth birthday, the sun has got his hat on and Andymonium is in full swing as the super Scot reaches the semi-finals at SW19.
And here’s some more good news – it’s competition time!
The Great Belvoir Buffet
So let’s suppose we were inviting thousands of you to…
June 29th, 2009
Belvoir’s Elderflower Cordial: quality quaffing for quarter of a century
It’s not often you get to nibble at an elephant’s bottom, but here at Belvoir Fruit Farms we’ve been doing it for twenty-five years.
Don’t worry, such peculiar metaphors won’t get us fired. Because believe it or not, we’re paraphrasing Pev Manners, our beloved MD.
Pev’s ‘elephant’ is the adult soft drinks market – a multi-million pound…
June 15th, 2009
Competition updates!
Maybe it’s our fault. Maybe we were drunk on sunshine. Those two weekends of gorgeous weather that graced us a few weeks ago must’ve made us a bit giddy with excitement. You see, it was during those sun drenched days we came up with the idea of the Belvoir On For Britain Flower Show. We…
May 14th, 2009
The charming glugs of May
The last time dear Blightly was in a recession, ITV decided to cheer everyone up by screening The Darling Buds of May. The show, based on the novels of Herbert Ernest Bates (a name to which we doff our bottle caps), follows the shenanigans of the loveable Larkin family on their farm in Kent. It…
