Moving update...

After a week of hard work (thank you everyone who's helped!), my mother-in-law is packed up and ready to move into her new cottage tomorrow morning. Oh, how we're praying for a nice dry day! We've got many, many boxes of books, fabrics, antique china, and theatre costumes to haul; furniture to maneuver up narrow, winding stairs; and paintings to transport gently (Howard's grandmother, Ruth Sudbury-Palmer, was a landscape artist)...but there will also be food and cake (thanks to the kind harpist across the road), and by nightfall it will all be done.

On Wednesday I plan to collapse, and I'll back in the studio by Thursday. See you then!

Tilly in the studio garden, waiting to get back to our usual daily routine...