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March 20th 2020. My 50th birthday. It was a day I hugged my friends and waived them goodbye after a week. It was the last I would see of some of them for some considerable time. Change is inevitable - it is how we cope that matters

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It is a time when I think about spring-cleaning. The act of dusting away the cobwebs from not only the house, but my mind too is very therapeutic

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Resolutions, goals, intentions…  Whatever you call them, January tends to be a time that we sit down and consider what we want to achieve during the year. It is very easy to fall into the trap of thinking […]
In 2006 I produced these collograph prints as part of my first assessed project for my degree. Listen to my head and they’re not my best work, but from the heart I love them. They were the realisation […]
I’ve always baked, made and at my worst (or best) recycled wrapping paper.  I was raised to be economical and not wasteful.  I relaxed a little through the height of my career, time was in short supply and […]
Since my last post I really cracked on with weaving my beautiful natural hand dyed wool.  Once the loom was warped, the actual weaving only took a few hours – much quicker than knitting.  I’d spend about 20 […]

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September seems to have slipped me by so quickly.  The rain has arrived and there’s an autumnal amber tinge to the trees. There’s so much going on at the moment.  I’m not very political, but I can’t ignore […]

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Autumn will be the start of a busy season for me, so late summer is a great time to get plans into place.  Autumn brings with it more art events and fairs and an increase in customers wanting […]
After what seemed like the longest wettest August ever, and I think stats have confirmed the latter, we’ve now headed into a hot spell and are likely to set a record for the hottest August ever too.  I […]
It seems to have rained daily since we got back from Cornwall late July.  The Leek & District Show was a bit of a wash out.  I have a strong need to be outdoors and although I can […]