This photograph was the vicarage’s 2014 Christmas card. As many of you may know – and may remember seeing here previously – the flower is a Hellebore/Christmas Rose, one of the flowers embroidered for the patchwork altar frontal (as yet unfinished) for Ipsden Church. Over Christmas, 5 services in as many days can take a […]

A flurry of carol services and  Christmas Eucharists, a head cold and the follow on cough,  and a houseful of nearest and dearest – peaking at 10 to feed and bed – mean I have been unintentionally absent from this blog for a couple of weeks. I’m now pacing myself slowly hoping to be at full […]