Just returned from the Knitting & Stitching Show in London …. A truly exhausting but inspirational week and I have come home with some new stitching ideas. Whilst away a pheasant has made its home in one of the rhododendron bushes in the front garden and jumps out at the children when they return from school in the evening. There has been a lot of screeching from both my daughter and the phesant! This morning I found some rather lovely sketches of the pheasant by my daughter’s bed … It seems to be a form of art therapy, a case of, ‘know your enemy.’ Perhaps we could stitch him in beads? 
Ann's Orchard 