Embroidery on Lindisfarne

This post links with the one I wrote two weeks ago here (about Bambrugh Castle), since we drove on up the coast from Bamburgh to Lindisfarne (also known as Holy Island). Lindisfarne is cut off by the tide, so you can only cross at certain times on any given day. We had planned our tripContinueContinue reading “Embroidery on Lindisfarne”

Meeting Captain Pugwash again!

Captain Pugwash (here and above), artwork copyright the Estate of John Ryan, photo used by kind permission of Isabel Ryan When I was young, there was an enchanting children’s programme on the television called ‘Captain Pugwash’. This swash-buckling pirate’s adventures first appeared as a black-and-white cartoon in Eagle magazine in 1950.  I came across PugwashContinueContinue reading “Meeting Captain Pugwash again!”