A little cardigan snuck in among all the whitework embroidery because I have to have some plain knitting on needles for the evening – which reminds me that I shall be twitchy this evening unless I manage to give some thought the wool and pattern for the next project. Really it’s ridiculous that with […]

  Edward Jenner is much celebrated at the moment as the man who pioneered vaccination for the successful treatment of smallpox. (A Gloucestershire man, he had a house in Cheltenham from 1792 – 1820.) But we should also remember Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who had brought a similar but less refined practice from the near […]