At the start of this embroidered alphabet project, I rather dismissed animals like the X-ray fish and the zebra butterfly for being second rate representatives for the initial letters of their names and for revealing a too great use of the imagination on the part of those given to the naming of animals. I […]

  Yarrow will make itself very much at home in gardens if it likes the conditions – and it was obviously very happy in the vicarage garden at Ipsden where it would pop up all over the place, not often exactly always where you would like it to, though it has to be said, it […]