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- 9th October 2008
Recently went with a group of Yr 4's to the East Mids Children's Food Festival, an excellent educational day for primary school kids organised by local home economist Teresa Bovey.
We had a tractor ride, learned how to make pasta from scratch, found
- 9th October 2008
I notice Funky Monkeys children's indoor play centre has opened in Loughborough - a long-overdue facility I think. I must get my two kids in there for a session. Nice to see new businesses opening up in town - good luck to them.
Well done to The Rush
- 9th October 2008
Well I've just bought 2kg of pork shoulder, 0.5kg of sheep's intestines (sausage casings) and a mincer and attachment for my Kenwood Chef, so this weekend I'll be having a sausage-making orgy at chez thebestofloughborough.
My 8-year-old and I decided
- 9th October 2008
Last week I had a meeting with Mr Ali of The Red Veil Indian Restaurant on Nottingham Road, just along from Putts Decorating Store.
Obviously I'd like them to feature on the site because a few people have recommended them, and their approach is a bit
- 9th October 2008
Just wanted to give a shout to The Manor House at Quorn for the wonderful meeting facilities they have there.
It's not widely known about but their upstairs meeting space is excellent for small-ish business meetings, as well as private functions. We'
- 14th September 2008
As food prices rocket there has been an understandable surge of interest in cheaper foods (not to mention free food - I'm expecting a lot of competition for the local elderberry and blackberry crops this year). We're lucky in our household because Mrs T
- 13th August 2008
Thanks to the success of her three recent workshops on Handbag Making, Roman Blind Making and Bedding Making, textiles tutor and interior designer Brenda Needham of Creating Impressions is planning four more workshops near Loughborough over the next 6 m
- 27th June 2008
Every time I go to Hathern Nurseries I'm amazed at the low prices compared to other garden centres. The reason is that owner Andrew Barker grows most of the bedding plants and shrubs himself right there at the nursery - many large garden centres don't grow
- 27th June 2008
thebestofloughborough member Linda Beswick ofBluebell Florawas recently featured on BBC1's program "Don't Get Done Get Dom" (9.15am, 9th June 2008). In this episode "consumer champion" Dominic Littlewood
was helping Mountsorrel couple Ant and Karen Davis
- 13th June 2008
According to the Lotto website there is an unclaimed prize of £397,462 from 5th March, from a ticket bought in the Leicester area. So if you know anyone locally who buys tickets and forgets to check them then... I'm sure they'll be suitably thankful if it