There is to be a slight change of direction for this blog. I have begun to find that writing about cycling comes more easily to me than writ...

I was recently asked to mend this silk blouse. The owner did not know exactly how old it was, but my guess is 1930s. The amazing thing is th...

A somewhat different sort of post for me! What inspired it was an episode of Dragon's Den earlier this year, in which the founders of a ...