Who's Little?

Little was accidentally established by a thirty something writer who likes the finer things in life and wanted a 'hobby' to release her excessive creative juices, get her hands mucky and have a genuine excuse to occassionally close the lid on the laptop and disappear into the workshop (and thus now understands why her Gramp had a 'shed'!)

The Little workshop is situated at the back of a sprawling 14th Century cottage nestling at the base of the foothills of the North Cotswolds and sits snugly between the church and the pub in the historic village of Bretforton in South Worcestershire. The cottage, gardens and workshop is shared with Matilda and No-Name the inquisitive chickens who sing and chatter in the background as we work and Mr Mutley, the failed (but very gorgeous) gundog. We also emergency board Guide Dogs and in our first year of trading we fostered Umber the guide dog puppy who too spent his first year with us before he left for training school  (he was a bit of a celeb' with a monthly column we wrote on  his progress in Dogs Monthly magazine and the  Cotswold & Vale Magazine - he is also Mr August and Mr December in the Guide Dog 2010 calender - but I digress.... we adored him, and his penchant for mud and other things unmentionable inadvertantly helped us create The Little Beast Bar so his legacy lives on!) The latest  addition to the Little fold is Little Doris the black kitten...

So, back to Mr Mutley, he is naturally an equal partner in the business trying and testing the  Little Beast Bars and insisting on "him" time for walks and games as we wait for oil and lye temperatures to drop and the soap to cure - and the Little kitten? Well, like all cats, she kinda rules the roost...

.....now, the main thing LITTLE strives and achieves is that the workshop is an utterly stress free environment. Thankfully there is no signal in the  village square meaning mobiles,  iphones, landlines are futile and laptops also are banned along with any grumbles, stresses and deadlines which normally govern life outside of us being Little! Taking the holistic approach, we believe this in turn positively fills both us and our soap with lovliness and goodness...