FOOD & DRINK

World Gin Day is always the second Saturday in June. It’s a day for everyone over drinking age of course to enjoy gin! This year, we’re celebrating it with cocktails made with Conker gins.

GLOBAL GIN DAY 13 th JUNE

2020

CAFE SPRITZ

This is the hottest drink trending on the Conker Instagram feed like a pouting millennial but less annoying and more refreshing! Ingredients

25ml Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur 200ml classic Indian tonic water Wedge of fresh orange How to make

Simply swap out your gin for Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur – remembering to add the Cold Brew after the tonic (otherwise all hell breaks loose). Garnish with a belt of orange peel. 14.

BEE’S KNEES

For the ultimate Bee’s Knees hunt out your finest honey for a cocktail that’s the very definition of fresh, and a wonderful manifestation of summer! Ingredients

50ml Dorset Dry Gin 25ml fresh lemon juice 25ml honey

How to make

Take the gin, fresh lemon juice and your tastiest honey and shake. Add ice and shake to chill the drink down, pouring into a fancy chilled glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

It’s not every day a Chartered Quantity Surveyor throws in the towel to try his hand at making gin! Conker Gin now produces innovative spirits, handcrafted in Dorset’s first gin distillery. Thanks to Conker for the recently gifted bottles of the following:

Dorset Dry Gin (40%)

This is a refreshing take on a classic London Dry that’s well balanced and juniper-led. It has bright refreshing Dorset notes of elderberries, Samphire and handpicked gorse flowers.

£36 | 70cl

Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur (25%)

This has been crafted for true coffee lovers with Grade 1 forest-grown Ethiopian and Brazilian coffees plus a touch of Demerara sugar and Conker’s distilled wheat spirit.

£31 | 70cl

Conker ideas and inspiration

To see the complete Conker range of gins, visit www.conkerspirit.co.uk For more Conker cocktail ideas, go to www.conkerspirit.co.uk/cocktails

DAD IT’S ALL ABOUT IT’S ALL ABOUT DAD This year we may not be together but make him feel special with these five practical yet fun gifts!

FATHER’S DAY 21 st JUNE 2020

Happy Face This is such a lovely gift for all the guys who have beards to care for. The Crowlink Loot gift set features three debut products from The Brighton Beard Co.– Old Joll’s beard oil, Jevington Jigg’s moustache and beard wax and Tom’s beard balm creampot. The goodies come in a super cool waxed cotton duffle pouch bag, which is perfect for holidays and weekends away.

£39 | Crowlink Loot Gift Set www.thebrightonbeardcompany.co.uk

Cheers! Sauternes Cask Single Malt Whisky is the first whisky in the new Hearts & Crafts series from Cotswold Distillery. This year’s limited edition series celebrates the Arts & Crafts movement, which flourished in the Cotswolds and stood for the importance of traditional craftsmanship - the same values upon which this beautiful rural distillery was built. The premium French Oak casks are seasoned with sweet Sauternes wine, resulting in a honey-coloured malt with a vinous quality and notes of peach, sweet raisin and oak wood spice. All bottles come with a lovely William Morris design presentation tube.

£74.95 | Sauternes Cask Single Malt Whisky www.cotswoldsdistillery.com

Dog-loving dad Lifestyle This bone china mug collection takes inspiration from beach walkers and dog walkers. Taking in the clean air and views of this stunning North Cornish coastline. Romance is in the sea salty breeze, so keep coming back to see how the Caroline and Edward storyline blossoms! Designed and printed in the UK, this collection is limited to 1000 pieces.

Mugs start from £16.99 www.budeful.com

Does he love his music? Then he can stay cool and comfortable in the Rock Dick boxer shorts from Dick Winters while he struts his stuff! Designed and manufactured in Great Britain, these boxer shorts are made using an Actisystem fabric that acts like a super-soft second skin from 95% Meryl and 5% Lycra and has a four-way stretch. The temperature-regulating qualities of the fabric make them breathable and retain its shape; softness and colour wash after wash.

£28 | Rock Dick Boxer Shorts www.dickwinters.co.uk

Just add water! Eco Bottles is a UK based organisation that produces eco-friendly bottles. Their vision is to reduce the carbon emission rate associated with the bottled water industry through imports and landfill waste. The company also wants to promote the health benefits of drinking water and the risks associated with dehydration. Made from 100% recycled materials and Bisphenol A free, these bottles are made from food grade plastic and come in three colours. They are dishwasher safe and can hold 500ml of water.

£7.49 (including UK postage) | Eco-Bottle www.eco-bottles.co.uk

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

We chat to Bronnley about how it remains one of Birtian’s favourite soap makers

TELL US A BIT ABOUT THE HISTORY OF BRONNLEY? Bronnley was started by our founder, James Bronnley, when he was just 19 years old. After studying the science of soap making in Paris in 1883, he decided to return to England with ambitions to become a premium soap maker.

After borrowing £300 from a friend, he set up a small shed in Holborn and began to craft, produce and sell his luxury products. This legacy and the history of the brand always stems from keeping that level of innovation, quality and heritage.

WHY DO YOU THINK THAT BRONNLEY HAS SURVIVED? No doubt that it has to do with the quality of our soap and of course, the fragrance. The brand carries so many memories for people growing up so that nostalgia and fondness for Bronnley lives on from generation to generation. We have a very iconic core range of high-quality soaps and we’ve never sacrificed on the formula, and this shows through our loyal customer base. TELL US ABOUT THE INGREDIENTS AND PRODUCT RANGE? Our products have a very versatile ingredient profile. For example, our fragrances have a mixture of top notes, heart notes and base notes, which enable us to create the most layered and iconic scents. We include versatile ingredients to create scents that last.

Our soaps are more complex. We like to add Shea Butter and Almond oil for softness and lavish luxury.

DO YOU EVER COLLABORATE WITH ANYONE? The creative team has a real passion for art and nature, and we’ve used this to our advantage in the past by collaborating with like-minded illustrators and artists. As part of our contemporary collection, we worked

with award-winning botanical artist, Helen Campbell on our Iris & Wild Cassis, Pink Peony & Rhubarb & White Rose & Rasberry collections. We had such wonderful feedback from this, and we’re looking to work with more creatives in the future.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THOSE WHO THINK BRONNLEY IS A BRAND FOR THE OLDER GENERATION? We’re proud to be one of Britain’s original perfumery brands, we have a loyal customer base who have used our soaps for decades! We really cherish our older customers who are still buying and using the same soap today that they used when they were younger.

However, the Bronnley brand has a broad range of customers. Our beautiful limited edition Eclectic Elements collection, with bold, daring packaging and complex scents inspired by earth, water,

air, fire and aether, has enticed a new generation of young, curious customers wanting affordable, savvy, trend-led fragrances. WHEN DID YOU GET YOUR ROYAL WARRANT, AND HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS TO YOU? By 1943, word of Bronnley’s innovative, luxurious products had spread overseas, earning the brand the prestige status of ‘the makers of the best soaps in the world’.

This led to Bronnley to be awarded it’s first Royal Warrant; granted by King

George V1 and upheld by both the Queen Mother and Prince Charles. The most recent Royal Warrant is by the appointment of HRH Queen Elizabeth 11 on July 12th 1955.

We are extremely proud of our rich heritage and Royal accolades and enjoy a loyal, worldwide customer base as a result of this.

DO YOU HAVE ANY NEW COLLECTIONS OF THE HORIZON? There’s a very exciting collection coming, which fuses our love of nature and fragrance. We’re very excited to share this with our customers soon, and hope it will be worth the wait!

Recently, we took to social media to ask our customers what iconic products from the past they’d love to bring back, so we are looking into how we can do this in a very modern and sustainable way! The future

looks very bright for Bronnley.

www.bronnley.co.uk

WFH

With more of us working from home, here are a few beautiful ideas and top tips to keep you organised

WALL-TO-WALL ORGANISITION This is a simple, modern and flexible storage solution for any space. The 100 pegboard is a fully customisable to suit all your needs. All shelves and pegs can be reconfigured on the board. Designed to look great and save space so storage that doesn’t eat into your floor space.

This mustard board comes with eight hooks, a large and small shelf, one large basket and a pot. It can also be mounted horizontally or vertically.

£160 | The 100 Pegboard www.pegandboard.com

FABRIC LETTER TRAYS Both beautiful and practical, these handmade fabric letter trays are perfect for storing all paperwork that needs to be kept easily accessible. Each one is fitted with a protective pad to prevent marking of surfaces. The letter trays can be stacked on top of each other vertically or tiered. The trays come in your choice of linen and cotton fabrics and are made from 90% recycled materials.

NEAT AND TIDY Suck UK designs every product in-house and has a team of innovative designers that come up with something a little different every time! This angular concrete pen tray is designed to hold small items. The solid concrete construction makes this an ideal foundation for keeping your stationery tidy and accessible. With smooth grooves to lay your pens and pencils, as well as a useful tray to store post it notes, memos, or keep your smartphone at a great angle for some face time!

£15 | Concrete Pen Tray www.suck.uk.com

HOME OFFICE STORAGE TIPS

Laura Bath, the founder of Peg & Board has some handy tips to help all of us working from home!

Wall space There’s no denying that space is always something that most of us would like more of! Shelving and storage can be a great way to utilise your wall space in a way that won’t eat into your floor space.

Shared office Create separate storage spaces to make it easier to keep track of your own things and avoid arguments!

Plants We all know the importance of plants for our health, so make sure you build space for plants in your home office too!

Colour Choosing a single colour theme for your furniture and accessories can make your room look more organised, even if it isn’t!