Easter is a busy time in both church and vicarage. As I have a houseful of family I haven’t much time for blogging or embroidering. Then it struck me that now would be a good time to blog about some of my husband’s beautiful liturgical stoles. The ecclesiastical stole is the long scarf-like […]

By late March suburban gardens are usually coming into their spring finery and nothing is more splendid than the magnolia. Flowers the size of communion chalices stand proud on almost leafless boughs (deciduous magnolias flower before the leaves) and waxlike, almost to the point of the fake, they remind me of preserved specimens so adored […]