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Saturday Post Part 1
So as planned, Emmylou came around last night and helped me with the hem on the top I began making last weekend. She encouraged me to finish off the tweed with a bias-binding edging and to leave the inner lining floating free, rather than in any way attaching it to the outer layer of tweed […]
On rams
About a year ago, I was either organising or packing for a stay at Julia Desch’s farm in Sussex. During my time there I met up with Kate, researched this and learned about Tupping – or, less prosaically put – the art of putting the rams to the ewes for breeding. I have an interview […]
Taking the time…
I have been trying to sew a top over the past few days and it has been most instructive in terms of patience. For a very long time I have had a large length of deep fuscia pink tweed, given to me by my Godmother when she realised she would never get a suit out […]
I SPY Oyster mushrooms
Yesterday morning, walking near Nuney Green, I SPIED some Oyster mushrooms, growing on a branch! According to my vintage I SPY book, in August 1962 this fungus was also spied in Cranwell. The emphasis in the I SPY book on Oyster mushrooms having a distinctly grey or black top left me feeling slightly doubtful about […]
Apples
Mark has some roots in the West Country, having grown up mostly in Devizes with a Cornish mother. I think that a mix of these Western origins plus some very fond teenage memories have given him an interest in Cider. And I have to admit, it’s an interest I’m coming to share. The thing that […]
I SPY / I HEAR
Does anyone else remember the old I SPY books? I have recently taken to collecting old I SPY books via ebay and I must confess to having become mildly obsessed. There are several reasons for this. I SPY books are immensely well-designed objects. The clear instructions, unfussy typefaces and excellent illustrations are genuinely useful for […]
best of Manchester
As promised, here is an image of the lovely travelling tag that accompanied me and my red suitcase recently to two great cities: Berlin and Manchester. Thanks Liz, I have enjoyed the pleasing company of this french-fancy luggage tag plus all the biscuit stickers that you bought me, on my recent expeditions. In spite of […]
best of Berlin
We were in Berlin for such a brief stay that I didn’t get to see everything I would have liked to have seen. Of all I did see, here are some favourites: spontaneous street art organisation bright lights from our hotel room window laugen brötchen and perfectly-wrapped cheese. Tonight I am packing again for another […]
Home from Berlin
Berlin is amazing. I wish we had been able to visit for longer, but it was very exciting to get a couple of nights there and – natürlich – it was wonderful to see Christine Hill and inspiring to see her work – DIY Bauhaus – included in the Bauhaus Modell exhibition in the Martin […]
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