Yesterday afternoon a friend came round and together we made inroads into the rampageous honeysuckle with a pair of borrowed garden shears and her secateurs.  About an hour, and five bin bags of 'cuttings', later we decided to stop.  We'd cleared a good half of the plant and anyway, she needed to go collect her daughter from school.  The rest of ( Read more... )

Guess what visited (sort of) locally at the weekend?  As it's currently 'The Cathedrals Express' I reckon it should come here.  We have a cathedral, heck, we have two!  And no, 'here' isn't Liverpool ( Read more... )

Right, an American knitting (and other crafts) organisation has twice gotten it wrong in as many days.  So here is my guide to pouring, and poring, because they are different ( Read more... )

Chelsea! Chelsea!

Busy, busy, busy.  It was making 'parchement' bookmarks, then a talk "What the EG does for us" from the SEW area president on Monday ("Venice" is next month).  Yesterday it was "Double Sided Embroidery", a day school in Liss - which was very pleasant.  Of course, the Chinese are the experts in DSE but what we produced first ( Read more... )