Rachel Mead

3 days ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Rachel Mead

As I walk alongside the moat which wraps protectively around The Bishop’s Palace & Gardens in Wells, I can see an adult swan with very plumped up feathers and macho body language, chasing two ‘teenage’ cygnets, at speed, along the top of the water. The cygnets, whose feathers have nearly all turned white now, are paddling as fast as their adolescent webbed palmates will let them, before they leap, very swiftly, for the grass bank to make their escape.

1 week ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Rachel Mead

When you hear that the owners of a farmhouse committed to a 400-mile round trip between their home and their place of work, you can’t help but be intrigued. Can any house really be worth over eight hours of driving each week?

3 weeks ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Rachel Mead

It’s one of those glorious spring mornings when the sky is thankfully more blue than grey, there’s splashes of colour in the flowerbeds again and the birds are joyously singing their dawn chorus. Mother Nature is working her feel-good magic which aligns perfectly with my meeting of Jessica Jones; Somerset’s latest talent to appear on the BBC’s popular daytime TV show, Make It at Market.

4 weeks ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Rachel Mead

As the county prepares to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday this year, historian, author and television presenter Lucy Worsley is inviting you to join her in Yeovil for a talk about the beloved author of timeless classics. There are some surprising revelations! Lucy, Jane Austen is one of English Literature’s most cherished authors. In researching her for your books and TV programmes, what did you learn about her character, that perhaps we would be surprised to know?

1 month ago | greatbritishlife.co.uk | Rachel Mead

When I was asked if I’d like to head to Weston-super-Mare and taste-test some chocolates I shamelessly replied within moments: ‘Yes, please!’ My destination was the food and drink innovation centre, Food WorksSW, where I would be meeting Steve Russell and Giles Atwell, founders of fresh chocolate brand, Russell & Atwell. For those of you who are fans of the BBC’s Dragons’ Den, you may recognise these chaps from when they appeared on the programme three years ago.