Last Wednesday I got to play with Ros Atkinson (@her_dark_materials) at Osterley Park, where she hosted a fun workshop for about a doze...

Last week I shimmied over to the London Institute of Photography on Brick Lane to do their beginners' course. I've been taking phot...

For all of us in the stitching community there's nothing quite like the big Ally Pally Autumn Fair. There are lots of other craft fairs,...

The other day I toddled along to Kew Gardens with Jenny, one of my besties, to see the Kew Gardens Thai Orchid Festival . It was all her ide...

When I'm feeling a bit shivery and off-colour I like to climb into a certain cosy grey cardigan with huge pockets and a roomy bagginess ...

Last night I took a short-cut through Walpole Park on the way home. As I was steaming along I came across the most beautiful sight: a mid...

I've been known to bleat on about how much I hate January. But you know it hasn't been so bad this year. I've been embracing Jan...

On our last day in London I came down early to get ready for my final day at Fibre East. When I looked out into the garden I was amazed to s...

Last Wednesday I headed over to Osterley Park, where their lovely volunteers were hosting a Georgian embroidery workshop. It sounded amazing...

They say it's haunted ... very, very haunted ... . Ham House, Richmond viewed from the Duchess's Garden And I guess if a ...

When I'm going to South Ealing tube station I often take a shortcut past the allotments, and down the side of St. Mary's churchyard....

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky, Khalil Gibran

Jan van Eyck (circa 1390–1441) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Did you watch the Waldemar Januszczak series about the Renaissance...

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd,  A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the...

The weather in London has finally turned wintery, and the very best sort of wintery at that: cold and crisp with blues skies that make the s...

On Thursday night Mr B and I went with some friends to a debate, Greece v Rome,  organised by Intelligence²  at Central Hall Westminster....

As Halloween draws nearer I've been enjoying some macabre tomb carvings. The carving below used to adorn a grave in St. Lawrence's C...

I've only just realised that we're in the middle of   London   Chocolate Week . Eeek! Why haven't I heard about this wonderful c...

Yesterday morning I was racing through gallery 116 at the Victoria & Albert Museum when I chanced upon a little exhibition called A Stit...

Have I ever mentioned that I've got a bit of a thing about curtains and soft furnishings ... . No? Well, my secret is out: I love ...