I had come across a recipe for Chestnut Brownies in a magazine some weeks ago and the cutting sat in a pile of patchwork pieces getting more and more dog eared. Time to put it to the test. Casually I scanned the ingredients and made a visual note of the tin of chestnuts pictured. In […]

Sunday was Whit Sunday or Pentecost when we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles on the seventh Sunday after Easter. Red is the liturgical colour for this festival and here it symbolises the appearance of the Holy Spirit in tongues of fire  described in the Bible as descending on to the […]