Here is a nice little hand embroidered monogram finished as I ratchet myself up to getting on with the other end of Balliol altar cloth. This lovely orangey-red (DMC 350) was much easier to sew than white on white, both in electric light and in the poor quality of daylight the bad weather has produced. […]

  When daughter No 2 was back in England over Christmas we spent a happy afternoon unpacking a trunk and taking an inventory of pottery brought back from Vietnam over the last couple of years.  The photos give just a few examples of shapes are sizes  but these are mainly smaller items to be given […]