News — lucky charm

I am taking a short break from the 22nd May to the 1st June 2025. No orders will be sent during this period. I will be back in the office from the 2nd June with lots of treasures to list.  Best wishes, Sandy xx

The humble bean .... from broad beans, to baked beans, from edamame to kidney beans. They come in all different sizes and colours but what made them lucky? Imagine 500 or 600 years ago you are walking along a beach and find a strange nut like object you have never seen before. Unbeknown to you, you have just found a sea bean. It could have drifted for weeks or months and travelled hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles from an exotic land.    Sea beans were seeds from giant pods found in the Caribbean and North & South America. They drifted...