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Canada is beautiful and surprisingly different than the US. As I passed through the interior of Ontario countryside towards Ottawa I tried to imagine what it must have felt like to cross these vast regions of openness, forested lakelands, mountains and deep valleys. Deer tumbling down through the woods in

My fingers push, the leather resists the sharpness of the needle point, but then the leather yields though I press no harder. The loose thread trails after the eye as it passes through and I catch the eye glistening for just a moment. The tight skin draws up sharply as

So good to taste American coffee again and not the coffee the UK sells as American coffee. It’s nice to sit amongst American friends and listen to their different accents. Busy people come and go and here I am eating breakfast and starting my day at 10am. It’s

Threading the needle takes two hands. One holds the needle steady, the other pinches the thread just behind its leading edge and guides the point through the eye of the needle.  Drawing from my journal Two hands work side by side. One pushes the thread, whilst the other transfers the

When I went to Scotland I bought a couple of machines from a raptor centre that rescued wild birds and restored them to the wild where possible. Thought you might like this.