Sunday afternoon of the last weekend  in June and the judgment can be made that it has performed as a summer weekend should. Warm (definitely not hot), sunny and with more than a hint of languid, gardens are at their most delicious with big frosted pink to lipstick red roses and peonies, iceberg to royal […]

  For years I’ve bought the same black covered spiral bound A5 notepad from various stationers. I soon realised that I needed to differentiate the different subject matters in some way and so, every once in a while I sit down with a new notebook and a likely looking piece of fabric – vaguely colour […]