Lazy days

THERE COMES a point in most knitters’ lives when we encounter sheepy yarn: the kind that leaves your hands lanolin-scented and shiny, and which makes you feel a little closer to the yarn’s origin as y

The beauty of Lancashire’s Lune valley emerges from ...

Letter of the week Brownie points FOR me, ...

IT began as an unremarkable day. Leaves falling into mud on the riverbank, the sun shy behind ink splodged clouds. Jays screeching in the oakwood. I stopped. Mammal tracks drew my eyes. I knelt. These

The new Turner Prize (this time, for craftspeople) ...

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them