Flowers for the altar frontal must in all fairness include an example of the flower of the oil seed rape plant as it would given an unbalanced picture of the local fauna to exclude it on the basis of it being a commercially grown exotic rather than a naturally occurring indigenous plant. Large fields of […]

Although the vicar has formally retired, we do have people dropping in to say final goodbyes, so the church biscuit is still nice to have to offer. I was going to make Nigella’s Pistachio Crescents (from How to Eat, Chatto and Windus, 1999) but after a recent problem with another of her biscuit recipes (of which […]