Lifestyle

Our village does seem to work on the collective momentum generated by birthdays, I’m never sure why but that’s seems to be the village MO. My son was 6 last week and as this coincided with a bank holiday weekend and a half decent weather forecast the impromptu BGCCC (Broughton Gifford Caravan and Camping Club) […]

I’ve always enjoyed other countries customs and traditions as it is after all what makes us what we are and like travel, broadens the mind. Yapp Brothers has two wings to it’s business, there’s the retail side where we run mail order and ‘clicks and bricks’ (internet and shop in non-marketing lingo) and there’s the […]

Every now and then, there’s a collective momentum in the sleepy backwaters of Broughton Gifford and what seems like half the village manages to get out for the night. My wife’s birthday lands on the 5th April and another village friend lands her birthday a few days later – so there was enough fair warning […]

  We’re always keen to try something new here at Yapp Brothers, and so Yapp HQ was recently transformed into a ‘Feeding Station’ for the annual Lionheart Cyclosportive (http://www.thelionheart.co.uk) – we’d floated the idea of being the first ‘cheese and wine’ stop ever in the event last year and it was great to see it […]

My birthday falls in January, along with the Yapp staff Christmas party (like much of the food and drinks industry, it’s just too busy to down tools and party during December). So I have at least two occasions to brighten up an otherwise bleak month. Over the years, I have managed to find some terrific […]

  If the New Age nutters currently camped-out on top of the Pic de Bugarach, near the vineyards of Limoux, who believe the Mayan myth that world is going to end on 21st December 2012 are correct you won’t be reading this and I might as well not have bothered writing it. If, as seems […]

Here at Yapp Brothers we have a long and proud history of cajoling talented artists to illustrate our annual wine list. This is not as difficult as you might imagine as wine and art have a magical affinity and fine wine is like catnip to sketchers and daubers who have, since time immemorial, found inspiration […]

I first became aware of Jonathan Meades back in 1993 – I was an undergraduate at the time, studying in Portsmouth. With what could be seen as a high degree of resonance, I spotted his book ‘Pompey’ in a book shop beneath the Tricorn Centre, Portsmouth’s original contribution to Brutalist architecture which received a commendation […]

The village social scene seems to have picked up this summer and I can't help but feel that now my wife has become a school governor we're picking up invites that maybe would have passed us by last year, however we're still getting out more than we used to which has to be a good […]

Robin and I have spent the last four weeks in France, and have been enthusiastically following the Tour de France. There is no better way of escaping the afternoon heat than by lying on the sofa watching those guys climb mountains, and justifying it all by improving one’s French listening to the commentary on French […]