That's Books and Entertainment: Tony Collins: Football Master Spy

That's Books and Entertainment: Tony Collins: Football Master Spy: Tony Collins: Football Master Spy tells the fascinating and enlightening story of Tony Collins who was dubbed as football's "mast...

That's Books and Entertainment: Libya, A Love Lived, A Life Betrayed

That's Books and Entertainment: Libya, A Love Lived, A Life Betrayed: Libya, A Love Lived, A Life Betrayed is a memoir by Susan M. Sandover. It is a real love story that spans multiple decades and several c...

That's Books and Entertainment: Low Life Lawyer

That's Books and Entertainment: Low Life Lawyer: Low Life Lawyer is the story of the rise and precipitous fall and rise again of a colourful lawyer who is also something of a talent in th...

That's Books and Entertainment: The Loony Bin Blues

That's Books and Entertainment: The Loony Bin Blues: The Loony Bin Blues is a collection of poems from the pen of Tristram Cooke. The subject matter is wide ranging and extremely thought-pr...

That's Books and Entertainment: Latest release from Penguin Books: The Obsidian Th...

That's Books and Entertainment: Latest release from Penguin Books: The Obsidian Th...: Top selling writer J. D. Oswald's fantasy series is reputedly one of the best ever in the history of fantasy writing. But now with h...

Festive joy from Elizabeth Shaw

I wonder what it must be like, knowing that something that you make and sell helps to being smiles to the faces of every recipient each and every Christmas?

It must be pretty amazing, right?

Because that's how I think of the people who work for companies like Elizabeth Shaw, manufactures of high quality chocolate confectioneries.

Their products are a very important part of Christmas and there can't be many families that do not have some Elizabeth Shaw chocolates that they are giving or receiving each and every Christmas.

There are the Dark Mint Creams, so delicious! Which is what one would expect, seeing that the dark chocolate contains 54% cocoa solids, plus the fact that the wickedly smooth soft mint cream is infused with some specially chosen genuine mint oil. (Available through independent retailers, Should cost £3.49 for 150g)

And there is also the special Merry Christmas Mini Gift packs. A fantastic stocking filler or the ideal treat for the entire family and visitors over the Christmas and New Year Period.

Each has its own gift tag and a cute little festive ribbon.

They box has a combination of delicate mini flutes and wonderful chocolate bites. And the toppings are all guaranteed 100% natural.

Flavours available are Dark Mint Flutes and Dark Mint Bites, Milk Amaretto Flutes and Milk Almond Bites and Dark Orange Flutes with Milk Orange Bites.  (Available at a suggested price of £2.59 for 75g from independent retailers)

Bur there's much more, besides! There is the After Dinner Range, with redesigned packaging and two new flavours, the After Dinner Crsip range is the perfect gift for your host, or even the perfect self-gift for you!

There are now for fantastic flavours, Dark Orange Mint Crisp, Milk Chocolate Crisp, Milk Chocolate Orange Crisps and Milk Chocolate with Salted Caramel Crisp.  (Available from supermarkets and independent traders these should cost you £3.99.

Also, look out for more from the range next time you go out shopping, including the Famous Name Whisky Collection!

Elizabeth Shaw products are available online at this address https://goo.gl/iUQ2OO.

With Aspire drinks everyone can have a good Christmas

There are some people who avoid sugar because they want to have a healthier lifestyle. And there are some people who have to avoid sugar due to having diabetes and who need to make certain their blood sugar stays at a good, sensible level.

But over Christmas even the more sensible of us can fall off the sugar wagon, so to speak.

What can we do to help make sure we and our Christmas and New Year guests do not fall the sugar wagon?

To help them and ourselves you should get some low sugar drinks. Amongst the plethora of low or even no sugar drinks you will now find the wonderful Aspire Health Drink.

The drinks come in handy 250ml fully recyclable pure aluminium cans.

You'll be pleased to know that despite being packed with fruity flvour, each can contains zero fat, zero sugar and zero calories, too.

There are some nifty flavours: Apple and Acai, Mango and Lemonade and Cranberry.

Each Aspire Health drink also contains multivitamins and herbal ingredients such as green tea extract and the like.

They taste excellent, being refreshingly fruity, yet not too sweet.

You can buy them from health stores like Holland and Barrett and you can also buy them online at   https://goo.gl/8lzchF.

A fantastic stocking filler from Sugru, the Rebel Tech Kit!

The very clever people at Sugru have introduced the perfect stocking filler for this Christmas,  the

Rebel Tech Kit.

At an amazingly reasonable £10, the Rebel Tech Kit is specially designed as a "lifehack" gift, it's aimed at people who love their techie stuff and who want to get the most out of it.

It's aimed at people who love ensuring they can get the best out of their techie kit.;

Want to improve the sound output from your loudspeakers?

Fix some fraying cables?

Secure your tablet computer?

In fact the Sugru Rebel Tech Kit comes complete with a booklet that contains an amazing 14 of the most popular techie projects that can be undertaken with just one product, the utterly amazing Sugru mouldable glue!

The Sugru Rebel Tech Kit comes complete with four mini packs of the remarkable glue and a smart little storage tin.

And the recipient of the Sugru Rebel Tech Kit will never be left alone and puzzled over what to do next, because the kit comes compete with an amazing step-by-step guide to help make certain that every project will reach a successful conclusion.

It's a great gift for parents, grandparents, children, siblings, best mates and for those normally trick secret Santa's at the workplace.

Where can you buy the kits and other Sugru products? A whole host of retailers all over the UK like B&Q, Maplin, Robert Dyas and Halfords, or online at https://goo.gl/nvXqqz.

And now, meet Jane, the inventor of Sugru glue who will explain the whole story to you:-

That's Books and Entertainment: Titanic Rose Walsh McLean's Story

That's Books and Entertainment: Titanic Rose Walsh McLean's Story: Titanic Rose Walsh McLean's Story is a novel by Walden DCaprio Carrington which takes a fictional look at the life of Rose Walsh McLea...

That's Books and Entertainment: Rendezvous With Death

That's Books and Entertainment: Rendezvous With Death: Rendezvous With Death is the latest novel by former lawyer turned novelist Gil Hogg. A VIP in the form of a British diplomat has been ab...

That's Books and Entertainment: Find a Better Life

That's Books and Entertainment: Find a Better Life: You can Find a Better Life. That's the promise of author Brian Fitzpatrick. Throughout much of his life he felt that there was somet...

That's Books and Entertainment: Little Professor and his Robot Factory

That's Books and Entertainment: Little Professor and his Robot Factory: Little Professor and His Robot Factory is a wonderful new book for children -and their parents and grand parents, too!- that takes the rea...

That's Books and Entertainment: Thinking Lies Learning how to Believe in Yourself

That's Books and Entertainment: Thinking Lies Learning how to Believe in Yourself: Thinking Lies Learning how to Believe in Yourself is the new book from David Hulman. It is based on and inspired by his own person exper...

That's Books and Entertainment: Shine on, Marquee Moon

That's Books and Entertainment: Shine on, Marquee Moon: Shine on, Marquee Moon is the debut novel of Zoe Howe who is one of the UK's leading music writers. Although this is her first novel...

That's Books and Entertainment: If You Can't Take a Joke

That's Books and Entertainment: If You Can't Take a Joke: The Travels of a Naval Salesman is a memoir written by Gordon Gray, relating how he began his career in sales as an utter novice and how he ...

That's Books and Entertainment: Happiness Diary

That's Books and Entertainment: Happiness Diary: Happiness Diary is a splendid new book from psychologist and researcher Narissa Phipps. Narissa has undertaken detailed research on the ...

Braun MultiGroomer The ideal Christmas present

The Braun MultiGroomer is truly the ideal Christmas present for Christmas 2016.

What does it do? What doesn't it do? It does everything you could possibly want it to do.

You can use it to shave, you can use it to style and you can use it to trim, too.

It really is a three in one tool, but it does all of those jobs equally well. It's as good as a device dedicated to each of those tasks, or, in some particular cases, even better.

It comes with three purpose designed and expertly crafted trimming attachments.

And gone are the days of having to wait overnight before you can use your trimming device! One hour of charging its powerful Ni-MH batteries will give you guaranteed 100% constant power for 30 minutes of shaving, styling or trimming. Or you can even give it a 5 minutes quick charge.

And it's good to go with you on your travels as it has fully automatic voltage detection software that allows it to be charged anywhere in the world. It even comes with a funky little charging stand.

And it's light enough to travel with you on your next trip abroad.

There's a nifty extra wide shaving head with a flexible SmartFoil which gives you a smooth, clean shave with the minimum amount of strokes.

There's a superb Adustable Click&Lock comb which comes with four length settings (covering 1.2mm to 6mm) and you can Trim & Style with the special twistable trimmer.

You can use it dry or wet, so you can even take it into the shower with you!

It costs £69.99 and you can buy it this link at a substantial discount https://goo.gl/La8uC4.

Lambrini Truly Peach Flavour

We chilled the bottle and we poured two glasses of Lambrini Truly Peach wine and we we both quickly whisked away from the cold British Autumn evening to a Mediterranean peach grove as we slowly sipped and savoured our glasses of wine.

Now, my wife and I are quite partial to a glass of Lambrini, but this peach Lambrini does, to use an old expression, take drinking Lambrini to a whole new level.

What's it good for? It's basically very good for just about anything, really!

It's a fantastic drink in front of a blazing fire on Christmas Eve, with or without some mince pies, it goes very well with cheese and pickled onions and the like, and it will serve as a low alcohol but interesting accompaniment for your actual Christmas Day feast.

And it will go nicely with your Boxing Day cold turkey sandwiches, too.

In short, this is an especially drinkable wine and will also be enjoyed by people who protest: "Oh, I don't like wine, me! I'm not much of a one for wine!" (EDITOR: Which, if I am honest, probably includes me in that number.)

To learn more you can visit  http://www.lambrini.co.uk/the-range/truly-peach/

It will be available form Tesco and The Drinks Supermarket at about £3.00 a 75cl bottle. But do take our advice, don't buy just one bottle as it won't be nearly enough!

http://www.tesco.com 
http://www.drinksupermarket.com/fruit-ginger-wine

Chase Gin and Chase Vodka, the spirit of Herefordshire

Chase Gin and Chase Vodka, can truly be said to be the spirit of Herefordshire.

The English county of Herefordshire, in the West of England, is famed for its apple orchards and its cider production.

However, thanks to the Williams Chase distillery which is based at Rosemaund in Herefordshire, the county is now becoming famous for Chase Vodka and Chase Gin.

The gin is distilled from apples grown on the family's own orchards and distilled on the farm itself.

The gin is described as being elegant and crisp and I cannot find fault in that description.

One can taste the range of botanicals in the gin, with juniper berries predominating, but the use of apples to produce the base spirit rather than grain gives this gin a lift about other, for want of a better word, usual gins.

There is a note of fresh apples in this gin and it plays well with other cocktail ingredients.

Chase Vodka is also made from an ingredient indigenous to English farms, the not-so-humble Potato.

This, too, makes a pleasing change from the more traditional grain spirit based vodkas and the taste is pleasing to the tongue and it, too, works well as the base for a range of vodka-based cocktails.

To learn more about these products please visit  http://chasedistillery.co.uk/. and http://williamschase.co.uk/.

You will also find a wide range of other drinks distilled at the farm.

You can purchase Chase drink products at this link https://goo.gl/iw9nNO. 

Make it an Opies Christmas, again, this year

Back in 1880, The Opie family knew what they had to do. They had to launch a family firm that would supply high quality comestibles to other families who, like they did, appreciated good food and proper dining.

I wonder if the Opie family knew that 136 years later their descendants would still be providing the highest class comestibles to a clientele that still clamour for their high quality range of very special foodstuffs?

Amongst other items, Opies are justifiably famed for their special Christmas "signature lines."

And what might these be?  

Pickled Walnuts. for many British families Christmas just would not be the same without a jar of Opies Pickled Walnuts to add that special doubled Zed effect to their cold meats including leftover turkey or goose, or as the perfect accompaniment for your cheeseboard. (What, might you ask is the double Zed effect? That's what I call Zin and Zip!)

And as a food lover, you'll be interested to note that if you want British produced pickled walnuts, that Opies is the only firm that prepares Pickled Walnuts in the UK.

And for those of you who either pride yourself on your cocktail making skills, or who intends to have your first bash at making cocktails this Christmas, then you will require Opies Cocktail Accompaniments to make the perfect cocktails:

Cocktail Cherries, Sliced Lemons and Gherkins, too. (Gherkins in cocktails? Apparently they really can enliven a vodka and lime cocktail. So give it a go or Google "Gherkins in cocktails" for some more cocktail recipes.)


And if you are a fan of fruits in alcohol (and who isn't?) then you are in for a treat with the Opies  Fruits in Alcohol range:

Ginger in Famous Grouse (that's totally new for 2016), Christmas Fruits in Courvoisier, Opies Peaches in Courvoisier, Black Cherries in Kirsch, Figs in Courvoisier and Apricots in Grand Marnier.

And for those of you who want to mke sure you have Opies in your kitchen to assist you in your festive food preparation then Opies can provide you with

Stem Ginger in Syrup and Black Cherries with Kirsch.

Barry Norman Picked Onions
And due to a set of random circumstances that makes life interesting, someone tasted a pickled onion made by Barry Norman (yes, Barry Norman the famed film critic) and Opies -the leading pickling family got together with Barry- and the result? You can now enjoy the very same pickled onions loved by generation after generation of Barry's family since the mid-19th century!

Products available from major multiple supermarkets and online. www.opiesfoods.com

That's Books and Entertainment: Peginoor Land of the Lost

That's Books and Entertainment: Peginoor Land of the Lost: Peginoor Land of the Lost is a new novel for children by Nanna Lambert. What happens to all the objects ad things that get irretrievably...

That's Books and Entertainment: Twelve Thrilling Tales

That's Books and Entertainment: Twelve Thrilling Tales: Twelve Thrilling Tales by Rita Cheminais is exactly what it says on the tin. Twelve thrilling tales. Each of the stories is short, yet a...

That's Books and Entertainment: Belinda: The Forest How Red Squirrel

That's Books and Entertainment: Belinda: The Forest How Red Squirrel: Belinda: The Forest How Red Squirrel is an utterly charming and highly captivating book that is a three-year photographic study of red squ...

That's Books and Entertainment: A Door Marked Hawker

That's Books and Entertainment: A Door Marked Hawker: A Door Marked Hawker is an intriguing mystery, written by novelist Nigel Milliner. It tells the story of Dorgy Pascoe, a village artisan...

That's Books and Entertainment: Snatched

That's Books and Entertainment: Snatched: Kieran. He is a normal, average businessman, running a normal, average (but high end) ticket agency. But the truth is that Kieran is not...

That's Books and Entertainment: Eugene

That's Books and Entertainment: Eugene: Eugene is a novel from author John G. Smith. John G. Smith was talking with a veteran of WW2. He heard a tragic story of how the veteran...

That's Books and Entertainment: In No Time At All

That's Books and Entertainment: In No Time At All: Do you remember the novel by N. A. Millington, Time for Tanechka? Now it is time for In No Time At All, the long-waited sequel, which al...

That's Books and Entertainment: Abdication

That's Books and Entertainment: Abdication: In his latest work, Abdication, historian and biographer Mark Hichens takes a detailed and percipient look at the story of the man who cou...

That's Books and Entertainment: Tears of the West

That's Books and Entertainment: Tears of the West: Tears of the West is the third novel from Ted York. In it York explores the terrifying possibility of biological warfare. The source o...

That's Books and Entertainment: Second Strand

That's Books and Entertainment: Second Strand: Second Strand is the latest novel from Devon's very own mystery writer, Carolyn McCrae. Alex and Teri are in a difficult situation. ...

That's Books and Entertainment: Stay Put? Make a Move?

That's Books and Entertainment: Stay Put? Make a Move?: Thomas Nevins is an international labour and human resource development consultant. He is the founder and chief consultant with TMT Inc....

Foodies will love Taste Tripper

Taste Tripper are revolutionary new food and drink guides bringing something extra.

They are from Jennifer Earle, the wonderful lady behind Chocolate Ecstasy Tours, not only do the packs recommend some of the top coffee shops, chocolatiers and craft beer sellers in London, when you visit each location in the guide, you will receive a specially-arranged treat to taste!

This becomes even more exciting when you discover who their partner locations are. The chocolate guide partners include: award winning chocolatier Paul A Young, chocolate institution Charbonnel et Walker and chocolate revolutionaries Mast Brothers. The coffee guide partner locations include: the Fitzrovia's most excellent Kaffeine, enthusiasts’ favourite Prufrock and coffee boundary-pushers Macintyre. The craft beer pack is almost complete and will be launched later this year. (EDITOR: I can't wait!)

It was while growing her tours business that Jennifer realised some of her customers would rather take more time, and experience each location at their own pace, and this is how Taste Tripper came about.

Taste Tripper is as much a guidebook as it is a self-guided walking tour. Each chocolate, coffee or beer guide comes complete with information about each partner venue, as well as a map showing all of their locations. The samples and treats don’t expire so you can do as much or as little of the guide, whenever suits you.

Taste Tripper is excellent value for money and gorgeous to look at. As well as the sample vouchers and map, the guide also includes tasting notes, insider secrets, offers and tips. A pack for one person costs £18 and a pack for two people is £30. The total value of the samples and offers within the pack make it an excellent and inexpensive way to try some of the best food and drink the capital has to offer. They also make the perfect birthday or Christmas present for any foodie in your life.

In the true style of Taste Tripper, the website also offers visitors something extra: a whole section of insider tips from some of the food and drink world’s leading authorities, all for free. Participants include leading restaurateur Russell Norman, Delicious Magazine editor Karen Barnes and series 1 winner of the Great British Bake Off Edd Kimber. Giving visitors to the website suggestions for even more destinations to visit, from some of London’s leading foodies.

Said Jennifer: “I am absolutely delighted to be launching Taste Tripper. Since working within the food tours business I saw a gap in the market for people who didn’t have the time to commit to a full tour but still wanted to visit the best foodie venues in London. I really hope that Taste Tripper fills that gap and allows people the opportunity to experience and sample some of the best tastes London has to offer, at their own pace.”

Taste Tripper is available directly from their website, along with select partner locations. All contact information and social media links are listed below.

Website : www.tastetripper.com  Twitter: taste_tripper Instagram: taste_tripper.

(EDITOR: This will make a really good Christmas present for the foodies in your life. Hope my wife is reading this article!)

That's Books and Entertainment: Prince Hal and his Friend Jack Falstaff

That's Books and Entertainment: Prince Hal and his Friend Jack Falstaff: Prince Hal and his Friend Jack Falstaff is a Shakespearean tale that has been retold by Alan Oberman. Rather than being merely new words...

That's Books and Entertainment: Ben and the Spider Prince

That's Books and Entertainment: Ben and the Spider Prince: In this delightful follow up to Ben and the Spider Gate, in Ben and the Spider Prince, we learn that, once again, Lox and the Spider Wizar...

That's Books and Entertainment: Clearful and the Queen

That's Books and Entertainment: Clearful and the Queen: Once upon a time (well, not that long ago) a real little girl who goes by the name of Lali, invented a new word. In the story of Clearfu...

That's Books and Entertainment: The Conjurer's Mouse

That's Books and Entertainment: The Conjurer's Mouse: The Conjurer's Mouse is a clever and light collection of rhyming short stories and other bits of random fun that are designed to keep ...

That's Books and Entertainment: The Cow That Jumped Over the Moon

That's Books and Entertainment: The Cow That Jumped Over the Moon: The Cow That Jumped Over the Moon is a new retelling of a classic tale. Jooks, who is eight years old, has taken her favourite nursery r...

That's Books and Entertainment: Charlie Green and the Pirate's Treasure

That's Books and Entertainment: Charlie Green and the Pirate's Treasure: Charlie Green and the Pirate's Treasure is the first novel for West Sussex-based writer Martyn Blunden. He was inspired to write thi...

That's Books and Entertainment: The Adventures of Rodney Fluffychops

That's Books and Entertainment: The Adventures of Rodney Fluffychops: The Adventures of Rodney Fluffychops tells the amazing and utterly charming story of Rodney Fluffychops and his new best mate, Spike. Ro...

That's Food and Drink: Jack Daniel's BBQ marinades

That's Food and Drink: Jack Daniel's BBQ marinades: I'll level with you, my wife is not a natural Bourbon drinker (her spirit of choice is Ardbeg Scotch or Bombay Sapphire Gin and that&#...

That's Food and Drink: Easter and Summer cocktails at a fraction of the u...

That's Food and Drink: Easter and Summer cocktails at a fraction of the u...: You will be able to prepare some pretty mean cocktails this year for your Easter and Summer parties and barbecues when you nip down to Ald...

That's Books and Entertainment: Mutable Passions

That's Books and Entertainment: Mutable Passions: Mutable Passions is a new novel by a novelist about another novelist. One of the greatest English novelists of the last 200 years, Charlot...

That's Books and Entertainment: Amelie and the Great Outdoors

That's Books and Entertainment: Amelie and the Great Outdoors: Amelie and the Great Outdoors is a heart-warming book for children (and their parents and grandparents, too!) which is written by Fiona Bark...

That's Books and Entertainment: Pick 'n' Mix

That's Books and Entertainment: Pick 'n' Mix: Pick 'n' Mix is an anthology of short stories written by Gabriele Ansbach. Having read Gabriele's book I can only reveal tha...

That's Books and Entertainment: A Book of Children's Rhymes

That's Books and Entertainment: A Book of Children's Rhymes: A Book of Children's Rhymes by Pixie Dean is exactly what it says on the tin, a book of children's rhymes. It is a delightful bo...

That's Food and Drink: A touch of Italian luxury for Mothering Sunday wit...

That's Food and Drink: A touch of Italian luxury for Mothering Sunday wit...: All of the best elements of the Italian dining experience can be found under one roof with healthy, hearty homemade meals at Capricci. A...

That's Food and Drink: Kids! This is ideal for your mum's cuppa!

That's Food and Drink: Kids! This is ideal for your mum's cuppa!: Any child would be extremely proud to give mum this on Mothering Sunday! There are three designs available – SuperMum on her own, with ...

That's Food and Drink: Bring a touch of Hercule Poirot to Valentine's Day...

That's Food and Drink: Bring a touch of Hercule Poirot to Valentine's Day...: Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie had a passion that the love of your life might share, for only the finest B...

That's Food and Drink: Enjoy Liquid poetry with Lord Byron's personal sin...

That's Food and Drink: Enjoy Liquid poetry with Lord Byron's personal sin...: Lord Byron was one of the world's best-loved and most influential poets of the Romantic period of world literature. Now you can shar...

That's Food and Drink: Roses are red, violets are blue, This wine is spec...

That's Food and Drink: Roses are red, violets are blue, This wine is spec...: Those innovative winemakers at Echo Falls have introduced an exciting Limited Edition Rose infused wine for Valentine’s Day! ‘Cupid’ win...