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Caroline Zoob

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Embroidery retreat at La Balie, near Bergerac in France, 16-23 September, 2020
NEW The Stitcher’s Journal 2020
‘Peto, build me a pergola!’ The gardens at West Dean.
Lady Ottoline Morrell – gardener and stitcher
Embroidery kit subscription for 2019
My week as a cook in France…
A treasure in Amsterdam
Sketches in the margin…

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#mybadhairlife #itsaheadscarfnext

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What a face. Brian Cox on @bbcradio4 Desert Island Discs. Great radio, so touching and inspiring. He tells his drama students to carry a photograph of themselves as a child to remember who they are, and he loves clothes - so much so that his luxury item for the island was a sewing kit. He likes to repair his own clothes. Quel mensch. Really recommend this episode, recorded recently. Maybe I need to try Succession while stitching the next Stitchers Journal kit. Hope everyone is well, coping, and not feeling the pressure to clean, garden, tidy, sort and emerge from this time looking super fit with photo shoot ready homes and gardens! I haven’t actually been any less busy than usual, and what is it about men and LUNCH at 1??? #adjusting #bbcradio4desertislanddiscs

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If you want a long, engrossing and beautiful novel to read, try Pachinko. It is utterly addictive - could not bear to put it down. It is the story of a Korean family in Japan between 1910 and 1989, and one of those books which makes your heart ache when it ends, because you cannot bear to part with the characters. Think we should all share books to read in the coming weeks. #isolation2020bookstoread @lee_minjin

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Mama said there would be days like this..... so, the printer turned my new style ‘ mini’ kit around in record time, chief and most beloved elf filled the thread cards, we are all ready to wrap and pack when I discover the screen has a gash in it which means I cannot print the linen. New screen in post tomorrow for Wednesday, I hope, and I will be wrapping and packing in my isolated workroom down the lane on Wednesday. The bunnies will hop on Wednesday as long as the postman still collects!

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Mr Z, who takes on an Eyore- ish bent in these times, was bemoaning the loss of his gym sessions. My solution was for us to fill the car with 12 sacks of mushroom compost ( Farm in middle of nowhere money posted through door saw no one) for him to unload and carry 100 yards from the car (on street parking) up the bank and up all the steps to our back garden to dig into the new border. He was unconvinced about this being any sort of replacement for the gym but curiously took himself off to bed for a nap after lunch! I think the trick to managing these curious confined days is to create a framework for each day and to dress as though we might leave the house. In my case, this usually mean paint- stained but clean clothes, my ancient boots and clean but wayward hair. Have ordered a clipper for mr Z and some snippers for me. Oh to have hair that just twists into a chignon with a pencil and interesting grey streaks. #gymalternative #soilconditioning #survivingselfisolation #badhairlife

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My mother. This was my father’s favourite photograph of her, around the time they met. If she were alive she would at huge risk, and a part of me is glad that having lived through the war in very difficult circumstances, and struggled through the ‘fifties, my parents did not have to witness these frightening times at the end of their lives. So here’s a socially distanced virtual hug and blown kiss to all those friends with elderly mothers about whom they are worried, and any self isolating mothers missing their chicks.

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Had to repost this of talented @sarahblomfieldstudio painting one of her amazing murals. Sarah must have the steadiest hands in the world - she also paints exquisite, intricately patterned lampshades. She also looks annoyingly good up a ladder! #bespoke #muralart #decorativeinteriors #handpaintedlampshades #whoneedswallpaper

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Not being Pollyanna- ish about this, because people are losing incomes and may lose businesses, and not everyone is going to make it across this precarious wobbly bridge, BUT we have to look for the silver linings, which may be simple, homey things making life better for those we love while we are stuck at home. What other choice do we have but to follow advice assiduously, and try to turn what feels so unsettling into something positive wherever we can. It is a time to remember that the daily numbers were people who were loved - not statistics. We keep seeing posts telling us to be kind - who knew the day would come when the peak of kindness meant sharing your loo roll stash? It might also mean taking the time to repost about your favourite independent shops, share your best recipes for chick peas, help hitherto Luddites set themselves up on social media/ skype/ online shopping and, as you do so, bless the cotton socks of @sirtimbernerslee et al for creating these channels of communication. Now is the time to show doubters that social media can be a source of mutual comfort, support and entertainment. Let’s start a new hashtag called #onefunnythingeachday and share the humour.

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Sad, but our spirit of optimism survives and we are in discussion with Eridge Park about the 10th October for an autumn fair. The main thing is to follow the @decorativelivingfair and all the lovely dealers, many of whom have online shops (eg @caroline.bloomfield.shop with a new website full of useful and beautiful homewares) if you need a little retail therapy. Tough times ahead of course, but if we all spend a bit, save a bit, give a bit of our time and share resources, we will get through this! #smashthevirus

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