Tracing Rainbows

1 + 2 = 3, 1+ 2 + 3 = 6, 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 =10, 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15 etc. These are totals are called Triangle Numbers I am pos...

With the current revival of retro cookware, we have acquired not one but two fondue sets. Bob bought the first, a lovely Le Creuset one, for...

Last Monday I was asked to do a demo at our Craft Group on the theme of Dorset Buttons.  I had heard of them long before we moved here, but ...

Madeleine Lebeau, the last surviving actress from the film Casablanca, has just died at the age of 92. I find the singing of the Marse...

People in church frequently refer to 'folding our hands in prayer' - when they mean putting them together in some way, and keeping t...

On Tuesday when we went to Salisbury with Steph, we looked at the sculptures currently on display in the Cathedral grounds and cloisters. So...

The Reader's Digest Magazine always ran a page of amusing anecdotes sent in by subscribers entitled  Laughter, The Best Medicine... [may...

On Tuesday we took Steph to Salisbury - as well as the market and the Cathedral, we also visited many of the excellent charity shops in the ...

It was lovely to have Steph with us for 48 hours- and when we collected her from Christchurch Station on Sunday afternoon, we took the oppor...

Now that's an intriguing title. It's all Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's fault. Liz recommended this book, and I borrowed it fro...

Bishy, bishy Barnabee Tell me when my weddin' be If it be amara day Tairk your wings and floi away Floi to the east, floi to the wes...

Yes, well done, to the people who suggested the bags were for my WWDP Conference. My friend Natalie was running a session about 'praying...

The annual Shipdham Drynkkings Fair is named after the brewing of beer in All Saints’ Church, which took place during the 15th and 16th cen...