If you're looking for a gift for someone who loves entertaining in the garden or having a drink there, then you could have a look at this lovely Verdi Drinks Trolley.   Make life easier for yourself to save you going in and out of the house from the garden to get all your bits for a lovely cup of tea or a glass of chilled lemonade or something stronger!

It has two tiers of storage space, which is very handy becuase it gives you more room to put your drinks on, and it's made from 100% Eucalyptus wood.   There is some assembling you'll need to do when you receive it.  

This Drinks Trolley is available from Dunhelm for £129.00.
You can find out more about it and buy it here.

The dimensions are W 55cm x L 79cm x H 82cm, 
and you wipe it clean with a damp cloth.  Simple!

Alternatively, if you're after something which costs less, you could have a look at Paper High.  They have some lovely trays to choose from, and this one is made entirely by hand using skills that have been handed down from one generation to the next!   This means the mango wood products are all unique - but they are all lovely! 

This Floral Carved Natural Mango Wood Tea Tray is avialable from Paper High
from £29.95 to £32.95. 

If you know someone who loves Afternoon Tea and Big Cats, you could give them a really delightful experience at The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, near Ashford!

There's a Paul Hollywood Afternoon Tea for Two there.   Starting at 12 noon, you'll be welcomed to the The Big Cat Sanctuary’s conservatory restaurant which overlooks the Asiatic Lion enclosure.

The Afternoon Tea has been designed by Paul Hollywood, and you'll tuck into a selection of finger sandwiches, homemade cakes and scones with clotted cream and jam - delicious!

After Afternoon Tea, you can take a leisurely stroll  to see the diverse array of majestic big and small cats that call the Sanctuary their home.   There are lions, tigers, jaguars, cheetahs, leopards, snow leopards and pumas.  The Sanctuary is a participant in the International Breeding Programme, and it's got a number of breeding pairs. 

The experience includes admission to 2:30pm, so you can spend time relaxing and watching the lions from the Restaurant, and then wander round the sanctuary at your leisure. 

Visit Virgin Experience Days to find out more

The 22st July is National Hammock Day!  It’s a day dedicated to relaxing and just lounging about in a hammock – to enjoy being in the outdoors, maybe enjoy a good book, listen to the birds around you as they chirp away, and watch any clouds as they float by.

Hammocks go right back to the Mayan civilisation, so over 1,000 – they were great for giving people the chance to sleep off the ground, and later on, sea crossings by explorers not only discovered lands previously unknown, but they also discovered people using hammocks. And the sailors fast found that the hammock saved space on board ship – and were pretty stable in bad weather.  And an added bonus was that you could take them down in the day very easily and put them away somewhere until you next needed them.

Now, of course most people will associate the hammock with a relaxing afternoon somewhere, meant for you.  Amazon has lots of hammocks to choose from, if you’re looking for a gift for someone, and you can give them lots of relaxing times in the garden – and they can take the hammock down after use, too.  You can just imagine having a quiet time to yourself, when everyone else is out, swinging gently in your hammock, really escaping from everything.

Someone else loves hammocks, too!

Give a rescue bear some privacy with a hammock!
Image ©Free the Bears

Bears love them!  And if you’re looking for a gift for someone who loves relaxation and bears, how about treating rescue bears to a hammock gift?

Free the Bears rescue bears being held captive in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, and they care for them beary carefully in their sanctuaries.   Many of these bears have been through a terrible time, held in tiny cages with little room to move and be a bear.  They have had awful diets, their teeth may be in a bad state and they may have difficulty moving because of being in enclosed spaces for so long. 

Free the Bears have now rescued over 1,000 bears and the bears receive the best of care – veterinary help, a good diet, water and a space to roam and be a bear. 

Normally, Free the Bears say that the bears are normally solitary but because of space restrictions, they share enclosures.  Enter a  hammock, to give these beautiful bears some privacy – a bear necessity! 

And not only that, the hammocks for the bears are made by volunteers!  Your donation covers the cost of the materials needed for the bears’ hammock, and the volunteers make them up!

You can dedicate this gift to a loved one & email them an e-card with a personal message.  The e-card has gorgeous pictures of the bears.   This is a really meaningful gift to help bears who have been through a very difficult time.  

There are other gifts for the bears too, starting at £8.00.

Find out more here.

For anyone who loves the Jellycat range of toys, they've got some new Amuseables in available from the world famous toy store Hamleys.

They are quite different and could be a decoration for someone who loves plants and nature.  They're kind of fun too and very creative.

Not only that, but you can also get either 5% off or 10% off their other orders at Hamleys when they use the two current codes. Check out the code details below:

NEW10 - 10% off over £40 - this ends on 30 September 2024 and it excludes gaming and selected LEGO sets. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other code 

CART5 - 5% Off Toys - this excludes gaming and selected LEGO sets. And it can't be used in conjunction with any other code.  It also ends on 30th September 2024

Visit Hamleys here