Suffragette sashes and Mary Poppins Returns

This week I had the pleasure of leading a workshop as part of the East Durham Film Festival, ‘A Community-led pop-up art and film festival about our North’, coordinated by East Durham Creates (www.eastdurhamcreates.co.uk). NB This is a historic post – please note that the organisation is now called ‘No More Nowt’ (this is theirContinueContinue reading “Suffragette sashes and Mary Poppins Returns”

Pictures of Paris and Playing with Patchwork Fabric

As promised, here is more of the low-down on the recent trip to Paris. We travelled by EuroStar from London:It worked beautifully, and we traversed the Channel Tunnel with minimum disruption and inconvenience (unlike my previous experience in a coach, where I felt like a sardine). Arrival at the Gard du Nord in beautiful sunshineContinueContinue reading “Pictures of Paris and Playing with Patchwork Fabric”