A few more flowers for the patchwork altar frontal.* All three of these related plants grow happily locally and the violet in particular has made itself very at home around the large tree at the entrance to Ipsden churchyard. Both the violet (Viola reichenbachiana/ the early dog violet shown here) and heartsease (Viola tricolor) are […]

For Mothering Sunday this year I decided to try the following recipe, adapted from Redcurrant and lemon cloud biscuits found in Miranda Gore Browne’s Biscuit (Ebury Publishing 2012). I used raspberries rather than redcurrants. Raspberry and lemon cloud biscuits 100g unsalted butter, softened 50g icing sugar 50g caster sugar (I use golden) zest of a small lemon […]