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Easy Easter Recipes

Easter is an important festival, with deep spiritual roots – one we love to celebrate as the sun returns. We share Easter eggs, as a symbol of new life, marking winter’s end and the coming of spring with its lush growth and vitality. Today most Easter eggs are made from chocolate, wrapped in coloured foil, but traditionally they were hard boiled chicken eggs decorated by hand. Normally...


Top 5 Lockdown Activities for Kids

The coronavirus pandemic is becoming a strain on all of us, especially parents. The superhuman feat of juggling work and home school needs acknowledging. Parenting can be intense under normal circumstances, but during a pandemic, when everyone is in the house almost 24/7 it can be a genuine struggle. With the demands of paying the bills and education taking precedence, sometimes it can be difficult...


5 Delicious Christmas Bakes for the Festive Season

As the last leaves spiral from the trees under pink skies and chimneys chuff like steam trains, we know winter is here. Bake Off has ended (which is saddening) and we’re in need of our baking fix. Good job Christmas is just around the corner. The cold season is one for comforting, rich, and boozy bakes—to be enjoyed beside crackling hearths as flurries of snow swirl outside. At Long ...


10 Ways To Spend Your Extra Hour at Long Barn

The clocks go back on Sunday the 25th of October. How do you plan on spending the weekend, and will you notice your extra hour? Here is some inspiration for how you can fit even more memories into your time at Long Barn Holiday Cottages. Press snooze There’s a local belief that Devon air makes you sleep deeply. Like many old wives’ tales, there is something in it. Woodlands and greenery...