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April 2024

March 2024

“Where’s my orange coat? I used to have an orange coat.”
Colour Coding Cromwell
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“I have a very large ledger. A huge filing system.”
I continue to stitch on my Cromwell Narrative Cloth, and it continues to make slow but steady progress. Indeed, I have now almost completed what Hilary…
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Words, words, just words…
I continue to stitch on my Cromwell Narrative Cloth, and it continues to make slow but steady progress. Indeed, I have now almost completed what Hilary…
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February 2024

“If I follow the river is that as good as anything?”
I continue to stitch on my Cromwell Narrative Cloth, and it continues to make slow but steady progress. While it develops, I will be posting some…
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“I always knew embroidery would get her into trouble.”
I continue to stitch on my Cromwell Narrative Cloth, and it continues to make slow but steady progress. While it develops, I will be posting some…
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We have patched and mended till we can do no more
So. Ten years ago this week, I sat on a train from Stratford-Upon-Avon and said to my partner, “I’m going to stitch that. It makes me want to do…
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January 2024

“All these things, these things we have now”
In Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell’s sister-in-law, Johane, comments on the material goods enjoyed by the Cromwell household: “all these…
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Something in the act of becoming
I went into my studio this morning to be greeted by Stephen Gardiner, scowling. Which was a good thing. A very good thing. I was worrying about my…
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“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
This morning, it seemed of vital importance that I knew the date on which Cardinal Bainbridge was killed. Because, if I have correctly interpreted the…
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