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. […]

This has been a trying week for so many people living near rivers. The college archivist has hardly lived in her house in Oxford since Christmas as the rising water makes the drains unusable. She and her cat are fortunate to have found a home in a friend’s house; her neighbours have portaloos in the […]