Hedge veg

One of my favourite things about walking along the narrow Guernsey streets was coming across 'hedge veg' - wooden boxes or plastic crates selling fresh local (excess) produce such as fruit, vegetables, eggs and flowers. There was something very quaint about the handmade signs and the use of piggy banks, enamel mugs and jam jars as honesty boxes. It was exciting to spot a box in the distance and find out what was inside.....the small pleasures!

Farm-inspired lettering

A great collection of handpainted fonts, stencilled lettering, posters and farming equipment from the Guernsey Tomato industry. Seen at the Folk and Costume Museum.

Fun at the farm

We've just spent a week in the North-East with family and had lots of fun. We loved our day at the farm with beautiful rural views (even the pigs had a great vista!), and we spied a quirky fire station rabbit hutch, foil windmills in a cardboard house, and cute packed lunches on hay bales. L loved milking the (plastic) cows and for an extra treat we found a huge soft play area in the barn, yay!

Featherdown Farm

More photos from our weekend on Featherdown Farm, see my earlier post here. I'm off to Eindhoven this afternoon for Dutch Design Week....very exciting, lot of amazing new work from graduates of Design Academy Eindhoven to see. Will post some of my favourites when I'm back.