I am about to embark on a new project. It’s exciting. It’s a little scary. It’s funded by Arts Council England – yay, and I will be writing more about this soon. However, before I start the new project there are ideas for a work that have been rattling around my thoughts for some time. The ideas won’t go away and the urge to make has been getting stronger. I have to exorcise this work from my thoughts before embarking on anything new. The origins of the word ‘lace’ have been

Today is Battle of Britain Day. An annual commemoration of the battle in the UK with this year being the 75th anniversary. My family archive contains many documents and newspapers that reference both the First and Second World Wars and whilst I mostly refer to the archive as Clarice’s archive this is actually rather misleading. My grandmother, Miriam Verena Edwards (nee Spratling) was Clarice’s sister and it is the documents, newspapers, objects, letters, cards and photograph