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There’s no hiding from it, Halloween is fast approaching! Here at The Square Peg we’re stocked up with stretchy rats and hanging toy bats, as they’re always popular at this time of year. And we don’t know about you, but we think that Halloween celebrations seem to be bigger than ever before. The supermarkets are wall to wall with treat sized chocolate bars and buckets of lollies and the fruit and veg aisle is over-run with pumpkins. It’s got us...

Winter with its rain, sleet and bitter cold will soon be a somewhat distant memory, well we hope it will, and in its place, spring will come bursting onto the scene bringing with it Easter and the promise of new life stirring in the world outside our windows. From the flowers bursting up thought the ground to share with us some of those wonderful first blooms of the year, the bright yellows of daffodils and the purple of the crocus,...

With Easter just around the corner, households across the country will be frantically searching for ways to make their living space a little more seasonally appropriate. Christmas decorations might involve a default set of standards to fall back on – you’re expected to secure a tree, some tinsel, some mistletoe and some additional decorative pieces to help tie the whole household together. But no such standards exist for the other major Christian festival. Consequently, we’re required to exercise our creative...