Every month, we trawl the nation’s coastline to bring you news of the people, places and exciting events that are worth knowing about
FIND OF THE MONTH
It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s winter and our pets are cuddling up for warmth. The design team at Sofa.com thought they deserved a perch of their own and the Bluebell pet bed in Maldives Easy Cotton resulted. That it’s a luxury goes without saying, but it has an appealing, practical edge too, plus it matches the company’s human scale sofas. (£380, sofa.com)
CATCH OF THE DAY
Explore the new range of Falcon enamelware, which is porcelain fused onto heavy-gauge steel for durability and smoothness – we like the useful three-pint jug in aqua blue. (£37, falconenamelware.com)
Create some delicious cocktails with premium spirits from the Isle of Wight Distillery. Alongside Mermaid gin and vodka is Mermaid spiced rum, as heartwarming as it sounds. (£41 for 70cl, isleofwightdistillery.com)
Wrap yourself in a luxurious organic cotton beach towel by British designer Freya Hollingbery, whose bee and moth designs are inspired by her nature-rich upbringing in Somerset. (from £59, tawulliving.com)
Wear your heart for all to see with a glazed porcelain pendant made on the north Cornwall coast by ceramicist Jess Berriman, whose range includes stud and drop earrings too. (£21, jessberrimanceramics.co.uk)
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SEA BEAN CAPTURES HEARTS
After coming across an unusual ‘pebble’ on a Welsh beach, budding horticulturalist Evan Smith discovered it was in fact a seed from the Entada gigas vine, a native of South America and Africa, famous for having the world’s biggest seed pod.
Fourteen-year-old Evan planted the heart-shaped seed (6cm in diameter and 2cm thick) and the vine rapidly outgrew its supportive bamboo framework, twining up the curtains. The seed grew so big that Evan reached out to the Eden Project to adopt his plant – a rare event due to bio-security. Somehow, Cliff passed muster and will now live in the Rainforest biome.
Known as ‘sea beans’ these heart-shaped seeds can float for thousands of miles across the ocean and over 40 species regularly wash up on beaches around Britain. edenproject.com
FISHER MEN REMEMBERED ON THE HUMBER
An evocative corten steel memorial to the trawlermen of Hull has been reinstated at St Andrew’s Dock, once home to the city’s massive deep sea fishing fleet.
More than 6,000 men and boys died sailing from Hull between 1835 and 1980 and the sculpture, by Peter Naylor, commemorates them in a design featuring 13 people.
The figures and faces were researched in photographic archives of the fishing industry to produce a spectrum of l
