The snow lies clean and white all around the vicarage, including on the road at the front. Only 4x4s have dared venture out and their passage seems to have compacted the snow there before them. The vicar’s car has remained in the same position since Friday and is fast becoming a hillock of indeterminate form, […]

Embroiderers must have covered almost as great an acreage of linen with daisies as can be found covering the grass in an average British summer. There’s something very satisfying about the simplicity of the shape of the flower that makes you embroider them again and again once you’ve done a few. Go into any junk […]