Oh the bliss of returning to knitting and sewing after a summer spent surrounded by storage boxes, their half forgotten contents and random bits of household furnishings – my welsh grandmother’s brass kettle (which I can neither give away nor know what to do with), an iron curtain rail for a rather large […]

A fortnight away – and one of those weeks in sole charge of two lively kittens growing daily in confidence – means that this week I’m slowing down and spending time catching up on things and people at home here in Cheltenham. Yesterday, London and Cheltenham collided as daughter No 1 dropped in on her […]