FOR gardeners who grow vegetables and fruit, this is the time of abundance, a period of joy and frustration in equal measure. At last the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of all that digging and hoeing but often there are not enough meal times to use up every last scrap. 

Kya deLongchamps channels her inner starlet and finds much to admire in costume jewellery.

MOST of us adore the gift of an appropriate book, and with so many new titles in the Home & Garden section, there really is something to excite every reader.

A range of fun and inspiring cookbooks from Irish and UK publishers this year makes Christmas gift shopping a doddle. Roz Crowley picks the best

THE CRAVING, particularly among young people, to relearn almost forgotten skills continues to gather momentum.