As I’m away from home at the moment I’ve been enjoying going through daughter No 1’s cookery books – a change is as good as a rest and all that. Current bed time reading has been Harry Eastwood’s Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache (Bantam Press, 2009) and though her prose is ridiculous in the extreme ( […]

I have resisted heading this post Vietnamese hand crafted animals as whenever I’ve included the word ‘Vietnamese’ in the title of a post I’ve attracted lots of spam comments, very few of which seem to have anything to do with Vietnam. (See here for Vietnamese skirts and land mine clearance, here  for Vietnamese ceramics and here for Vietnamese reverse appliqué, if you are […]