During our move last summer, I came upon a half finished baby coat which had been started by daughter No 2 but abandoned because work, life, and other such frivolous things got in the way. I threw the coat and rest of the wool it in a bag with a clutch of our favourite lavender […]

Four years ago I blogged about flax plants which I felt sure were springing up in profusion along not only country lanes but even the main roads. I waxed lyrical about how it was possible that they were the repetitively self seeded remnants of flax ancestors planted during WW2 for use in webbing for parachutes […]