Tag archives: summer
The Great British Summer of sport: 6 topical posts you won’t want to miss
Regardless of heat or sunshine, the Great British Summer has now truly arrived. If you’re outdoors playing sports, or indoors watching them, here are a few of our game, set, or match-related blog posts to keep you full of fun facts. 1. Anyone for tennis? Whether you were on team Murray or team Federer, this [...]
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream: a short history of our favourite summer food
Ice cream, one of the most spectacularly successful of all the foods based on dairy products, has a comparatively short history. The first ice creams, in the sense of an iced and flavoured confection made from full milk or cream, are thought to have been made in Italy and then in France in the 17th [...]
Summertime: socks, sandals, and strawberries
As those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are enjoying our summer, thoughts inevitably turn to those things we associate most strongly with Britain in that particular season. Strawberries and cream Of all the quintessential features of a British summer perhaps the most linguistically English of them all is the strawberry. Croquet and socks Croquet [...]
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