August issue on the way

The August issue of Grape Vine was posted yesterday and subscribers should have received their copies today. It was so packed with comps, there was no room to include the on-pack shopping list, but as long as your subscription is up to date, do please email me if you would like a copy of it.

I have just returned from a prize break at Swinton Park Hotel in Yorkshire, with a day for two at the cookery school there. The hotel was lovely with superb service and lots of very special little touches. My favourite was the tube of Molton Brown Eye Rescue which was left on our pillows at night in place of the more traditional chocolates, while my husband was delighted to find decanters of gin and whisky provided in the room for us to help ourselves to. (And indeed it would have been rude not to!)

Why not pop over to the Grape Vine website where this month's competition gives you a chance to win both the new DSA theory books, the car version, which contains an entry form for a tiebreaker comp to win a car, and the bike version which contains an entry form for a tiebreaker comp to win £1,000 worth of bike gear.