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Quiver. We’re not quite sure we should have started this one, particularly as the evenings are drawing in and that shadow outside the Pitchup.com office begins to look ever more suspiciously like a headless horseman. And as Halloween approacheth…
But, we are rather fond of
Cornwall
’s Jamaica Inn, covered …
Not that we’re normally ‘Won’t someone think of the children!’ hand-wringers at Pitchup.com, but we were shocked (shocked!) at today’s findings from the RSPB that only one in five 8 – 12 year olds in the UK feel ‘connected to nature’.
The report, part of a three-year research project, …
October is
Cider and Perry Month
! Hic! We mean, hurrah!
We’re a tad tentative about doing another boozy blog a mere two weeks after our
how to make blackberry brandy – and other boozy autumn foraging recipes
. But yanno, it’s autumn. Spicy drinks beckon. And we’ve just made …
Got a space cadet in the family? Starstruck about the stellar? Then you might already know about World Space Week from 4 – 10 October: set up in 1999 to annually celebrate giant leaps for mankind, galaxies far far away, and all things space. Cos-mic.
We have been questioned about our alcohol habits recently.
This scurrilous snooping was the result of apparent over-enthusiasm re our autumn foraging plans, which mainly consist of picking sloes for sloe gin, bagging blackberries and plums for brandy (two lots), eyeing up rosehips to attempt wine and unashamedly liberating fallen …
Happy Roald Dahl Day! We don’t need much of an excuse to celebrate at Pitchup.com, as it is a fact universally acknowledged that we are geeky about books. Especially kids’ books, which we read while washing down lashings of ginger beer, a phrase that was never actually used in …
We is agreeing with the gov’mint! (Brief pause while we lie down and fan selves.) To be fair, we normally agree with grants, schemes and general cleverness re doshing out readies (tick) to deprived areas (another tick) at the seaside (tick the third), but we like to pretend to judge …
Oh noes! We’re hearing reports that yet again,
many British pubs will go out of business in the next year
– around four thousand of them, inn fact. Shiver our timbers.
The Good Pub Guide has warned that ‘complacent’ pubs are at risk of closure because they’re ‘stuck in the …
It’s readers’ choice time again! Thanks for all your suggestions – wholesome and not so wholesome – about budget things to do around the UK. We’ve put them together and added our own tips so you can have a penny-pinching time wherever you are and whatever you’re into:
Our …
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