A greeting card with two swallows on the wing, flying on their summer migration, and one of the swallows asks ‘Is it summer yet?’

Our new range of 22 Valentine’s Day cards are at the printers at the moment. From there they will go to our distribution centre to be packed, with envelopes, into cellophane wrappers. And that should all happen within the next week. Then we we will ‘flick the switch’ on the cards here at Flying Twigs.…

Donkeys and ejiao, what is the connection? In fact, what is ejiao? Let’s back up a bit and begin with the history of donkeys and where they come from. There are three ancestors of the domesticated donkey. These are the Abyssinian Wild Ass, the Anatolia donkey, and the Tibetan wild ass. Their range is vast.…