What do you think of when someone says ‘funeral’? *The colour black? A crematorium, church or other religious building? A 30-minute send-off that is somehow meant to encapsulate the essence of a person’s life and their achievements? Awkward hanging around [...]

On the 27th May 2025, I joined with many other local suppliers, children’s entertainers and charities, at The Chester House Estate Northampton, to celebrate and remember Esme Smith, who if she had lived, would have been three years old. Esme’s [...]

I stumbled upon the BIPC quite by accident, when my self-employed hairdresser told me about a grant that was available for start-up businesses in Northamptonshire. I looked into the criteria and realised that the grant application process was very in-depth, [...]

Until recently, when two people got married, the wedding ceremony was a fairly formal occasion, where a specific set of words was used with very few options to add a few personal touches, and ceremonies were only able to take [...]

Just recently, I had the honour of being asked to perform my first handfasting ceremony. Handfasting is an ancient tradition thought to have originated in Celtic communities long before we were ‘putting a ring on it’! In its most basic [...]