A friend gave us a big bag of ripe red eating apples recently and as there were so many of them I stewed a panful straightaway. For a few days we had stewed apple with everything and then I thought I’d make what remained into biscuits. The result was more like a light scone with […]

Since I started knitting I have felt the call of Fair Isle but thought it was a step too far for my technical ability. But having balls of lovely wools is rather like handling a nice piece of linen and knowing you’re going to embroider it. So this week I settled down on a rainy […]