This highly inventive garden is open to the public for only one day a year. Your small window to view the Garden of Cosmic Speculation near Dumfries is this Sunday, 3 May from noon until 5pm. The 30-acre area was designed by Charles Jencks and his late wife Maggie Keswick Jencks. Entry to the garden is £6 with all proceeds going to Maggie’s Centres. The centres are based on principles of
Amy Schumer, who seems to be taking over the entire comedy scene in America at the moment, is joined by A listers, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patricia Arquette and Tina Fey as the friends celebrate Drefyus’s ‘last f***kable’ day in the movies…
At over eight acres Gordon Castle’s walled garden in Fochabers, near Elgin, is one of the largest and oldest walled gardens in Scotland. Owners Angus Gordon Lennox and his wife Zara have commissioned award-winning garden designer, Arne Maynard to recapture the former beauty of the garden and create a major visitor attraction in the north east of Scotland. The plans, pictured above, certainly show an elegant and handsome garden for
Such lovely work here from Cork born jeweller Gemma O’Leary who, having honed her skills in Canada and Dublin as well as under the guidance of esteemed jeweller Mette O’Connor, has realised her dream and launched Inner Island. O’Leary combines simple shapes with precious metals to create timeless, understated pieces. The minimalist designs are handcrafted in Dublin using traditional silversmithing skills and natural materials. ‘I spent many years searching for something that inspired me.
The Scottish Homebuilding & Renovating Show, Scotland’s largest consumer exhibition for self-builders and home renovators is back at the SECC, Glasgow on May 16 – 17 2015. Avocado Sweet has 3 pairs of tickets to be won. The show, sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements, will help visitors bring their project to life whether they are building from scratch, undertaking a major extension, converting or renovating their home or just keen
Welcome to our new series of seafood and fish recipes on Avocado Sweet by Elaine Hardie from Fyfe Smokery, Dunfermline. Here Elaine tells us about Arctic Char – worth considering as an alternative to salmon or trout. Arctic Char The Arctic Char is a fish native to Britain, and is now farmed as a result of ongoing developments in aquaculture since the 1970s. Now that it is being farmed could
Paul Rudge, Reuben’s Wine Store recommends some reds for this summer’s barbecues. Struth, the barbeque season is nearly upon us so it`s time to get the Barbie out of the shed, give it a good clean, get the shorts on, dig out your loudest Hawaiian shirt and you’re ready to go. Whether it is steak, venison sausages or Chilli burgers, those big smoky flavours call for big juicy wines. Many
There’s a very interesting exhibition on at the moment in the beautiful new Reid Building, part of the Glasgow School of Art. It begins tonight andruns until 26 April. Put together by GSA’s Senior Research Manager Julie Ramage, Dr Lorna Hands and Dr Nicky Bird, Becoming Awesomestow presents the findings of a research project into investments in cultural assets in towns and their effects on regeneration. The research group looked at
First Jimmy Shand, then The Proclaimers and now Honeypeace Records are putting Auchtermuchty on the musical map. Honeypeace is an independent record label based in the north Fife town. The label works with singer songwriters such as Ryan Lothian from Auchtermuchty, Jared Neville from Cupar and Johann Heartbeat from Sweden. They have so far released music on CD, cassette tape and on all major digital outlets and plan to nurture
Air hostess uniforms these days may be less sexist but seem very dull compared with these vintage numbers from the 60s and 70s.