Recently daughters Nos 1 & 3 visited their grandmother in North Wales and couldn’t resist rummaging through trunks of children’s clothes stored in the barn there. Home they headed with woolly piles of jumpers and shawls handknitted by their great granny along with an armful of dresses I had smocked for them when they were little. […]

I found this on a pile of toy boxes in the top cupboard of the spare bedroom wardrobe and I remembered how much I enjoyed the activity associated with it. So…I dusted it down, bought a bit of dowling to mend it and off I shall go… For a couple of weeks I am on […]