At the moment the church’s liturgical colour is green but this will change to purple on Ash Wednesday and it will remain purple throughout Lent as the church prepares for Easter.  Purple is also the colour for Advent, leading up to Christmas, another period of preparation. North Stoke’s purple frontal of fine silk brocade is […]

These were the least successful of the several recipes I’ve tried from Miranda Gore Brown’s Biscuit (Ebury Press, 2012) and though it’s quite likely the fault may be mine in the baking, others who ate these agreed that they could have done with more sugar. (Or, forget about the chocolate on top and eat them […]