This experience offers a great combination of relaxation interest & hands-on fun at the Wedgwood Factory in Staffordshire. Your experience

Includes:: a self- guided tour of the centre including the recently opened Wedgwood museum where you can learn all about Josiah Wedgwood & his company see some rare museum pieces & watch the mastercraftspeople at work. Next enjoy a two course lunch (served on Wedgwood china of course!) in the Ivyhouse restaurant. Then its time to get your hands dirty
- literally! Helped by a master craftsperson youll throw a pot or paint a plate. When youve finished Wedgwood will fire your pot & post it to your home where it can take pride of place on your mantelpiece. You will also receive 2 pieces of Wedgwood jewellery handmade in the visitor centre (worth £50) Youll receive a privilege card for future admissions & 10% shopping discount on the day. You are welcome to stay on until the centre closes at 5pm. What You Will Receive On purchasing this experience you will receive a Silver A5 Presentation Pack. Your Silver A5 Presentation Pack is embossed with a ribbon design great if you are buying this experience as a gift. Included within your presentation pack: Your Gift Experience Voucher
- Keep this safe! You will need this to book your experience & may be required to take this with you on the day of your experience. An Information Booklet
- Detailing all you need to know about your experience including personal injury cover cancellation cover & full terms & conditions of the experience. How to Book Guide
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Josiah Wedgwood I was born into a family of potters & became the finest marketing man of his era. His pioneering spirit built up the most important English pottery business of the eighteenth century so that the name Wedgwood became a generic word for fine earthenware. He is justly famous for perfecting the Black Basalt & Jasper stoneware bodies & for producing many designs based on the antique artefacts excavated at Pompeii & Herculaneum. This book also reviews & illustrates the firms products through the nineteenth century the designs of Lessore Dresser Crane & Barnard the resurgence after 1904 when John Goodwin became art director & the subsequent restablishment of the firms essential greatness. ...

WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore & her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britains richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young & pregnant with her lovers child Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over & married him within the week. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke & his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to Mary he embarked on years of ill treatment seizing her lands beating her terrorising servants introducing prostitutes to the family home kidnapping his own sister. But finally after many years a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day & was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her & undertook a week-long rampage of terror & cruelty until the law finally caught up with him. ...

' It would be easy to become addicted to Robinson'
- Observer". ' One of the grand masters of the genre'
- " Literary Review".

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Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching
- a wise shepherd
- might have been a witch but now Granny Aching is dead

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EVERY LAND NEEDS ITS OWN WITCH.. . Up on the Wold there's a monster in the river & a headless horseman in the drive. & now Granny Aching has gone there's only young Tiffany Aching left to guard the boundaries. To stop.. .things getting through. It's her l&. Her duty. But it's amazing how useful a horde of unruly pictsies can be
- as long as they are pointed in the right direction & can stop fighting each other first.. .FROM MASTER STORYTELLER TERRY PRATCHETT.
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Following the success of our popular Pink Flamingos Gift Set this humorous little incarnation of the classic kitschy lawn ornament will be at home anywhere from the backyard posy patch to the office desktop. Rumored to bring a bit o' luck to the owner the colorful garden gnome will at the very least bring a smile. ...

I was lying dead in the churchyard... So says eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce
- but soon a murder provides a gruesome distraction
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson This book is a practical & attractive guide to the many edible varieties of weed. It will appeal to gardeners botanists cooks & foragers & to anyone who wants to control weeds in eco-friendly ways. Weeds have many virtues: * They are often valuable to wildlife including beneficial insects. * They can be good for the soil
- helping the accumulation of trace elements & acting as hosts for mycorrhizal fungi. * Many weeds make interesting & unusual culinary ingredients. The main part of the book provides full details of over 50 edible species with valuable nutritional information advice on how to cook them & numerous recipe suggestions as well as some fascinating historical facts & tips for non-culinary uses. It covers both native & non-native species including some tiresome invasives & lists both common weeds such as nettle dandelion chickweed & ground elder & less common ones such as brooklime & wintercress. Advice is also given on controlling weeds & identifying those that are harmful if eaten. With The Weeders Digest on your bookshelf you can put your troublesome weeds to good use & welcome some plentiful edibles into your kitchen. It

Includes:: attractive colour photographs throughout.


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Gardeners find weeds baffling & daunting. Here at last comes a practical guide which explains how weeds work & how best to deal with them. Whenever he is gardening William Edmonds sees Charles Darwin as his mentor. Darwin was intrigued by the nature of variation in plants & how this related to which plants thrived & survived. From his minute observations we can understand how weeds can propagate & take over a garden. Informed by Darwin's insights & by over thirty years of gardening experience William Edmonds describes & illustrates one hundred significant garden weeds arranged in the order in which they have evolved. For each there is a What To Do & a further chapter sets out the pros & cons of twenty tried & tested approaches to weeding. Learning to recognise understand & deal with each weed will take you well on the way to coping in a relaxed
- even enjoyable
- tussle with these devilish despoilers. Weeds Weeding (& Darwin) is an enlightening guidebook for every gardener.

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