What do you do on a brilliantly clear Sunday? Make eclairs, and eat them at the beach, of course. Keira and I spent a couple of hours 'making stuff' over the weekend, the eclairs were all her idea (really) but they were fun to make, and delicious of course. We made quite small pastries, then…

There's one sweet manuka plant in our garden, and I used it as inspiration to embroider these stems on some dark berry-coloured linen. The plant gets pretty bashed around in the wind, but it seems quite hardy, thankfully. I've always loved manuka trees- we used to have a big one by the front door in…