When I’m planning a baptismal embroidery for a baby boy I always chew on my pencil much more than designing for anyone else. It would be nice to make something which they still find fascinating aged 5, 10 or 15 – a lot to ask. So no bunnies, lambs, dinosaurs or tractors; in fact let’s […]

English strawberries have been very good this year with an intense characteristic sweetness and a medley of subtle flavour changes in the eating, from first bite through mastication, so I thought I’d try a strawberry biscuit. Now, I’ve never quite understood the notion of strawberry shortcake as both biscuit and fruit seem a bit too unyielding […]