Last month, I decided to do something new. Well, new for me, at any rate. I was very busy preparing a paper about stitching in the Cromwell Trilogy for aconferenceabout the work of Hilary Mantel which took place in mid-October, and I didn’t have much space in my head for thoughts...
They make me laugh every time I see them. I sometimes think about making a whole fleet of Cross Little Men, but I suspect that if I did, they wouldn’t turn out in the same spirit: they might be rather forced and become very bad-tempered indeed. And the original three might feel ...