Signs of Spring

We may yet be in for some more chilly weather but walking along the Loden near my home at the weekend there were definitely signs of Spring. So, as I had my little camera in my pocket, I thought a splash of these on the blog might be uplifting. The Winter Aconites are actually in our garden – a whole carpet of them – which has developed over the years from a single plant by casual sprinkling of the resulting seeds each season. That’s my type of gardening……

Cotton – the ever uncertain costs

With floods in Australia and unrest in Egypt the price increases in cotton recently felt due to unseasonal heavy rains in India, are unlikely to be a short-lived phenomenum. It is becoming increasingly difficult to predict price rises and although we, at Tinsmiths, are doing our best to keep them down, recent increases have been unavoidable. Find out more about the global situation from the Guardian’s recent article by Simon Godley and Zoe Wood.