Last week didn’t start at all well. On Sunday evening my husband developed severe shivering of the sort I experienced after my first jab. The next morning he felt most unwell and wondered whether the shivering was a seizure. I thought not and led him, strangely cowed, back to bed where he stayed for the […]

  The Christmas present production line is still whirring, albeit slowly and in something of fits and starts. Hours of natural daylight for embroidering are at their lowest with the winter solstice just 10 days past and although I do sometimes embroider with a good light at my elbow in the evenings there are some […]