A birthday present for daughter no 1 two years ago, this cushion has just been returned to me to be washed. At least this way, if anybody’s going to make a mess of it, it’ll be the one who made it. Anyway, who but mothers and lovers of fabrics have time for hand washing? The […]

As this is the first Sunday in Lent and as so many people give up chocolate at this time, I thought I would make a plain biscuit a flavoured by lemon zest. I hadn’t properly read the recipe before launching myself into it, so I was rather taken aback to discover that  I had to […]