A flurry of carol services and  Christmas Eucharists, a head cold and the follow on cough,  and a houseful of nearest and dearest – peaking at 10 to feed and bed – mean I have been unintentionally absent from this blog for a couple of weeks. I’m now pacing myself slowly hoping to be at full […]

The most exciting artwork of the last year – nay decade, in fact possibly of the new millennium – has to be The Great Tapestry of Scotland. I first saw it on Karen Howlett’s Cornflower blog where she showed us work in progress on the section she was helping to embroider and immediately I was […]