Firstly I’d like to wish all readers here a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, wonder what lovely textile things it’ll have in store for us? It must seem like all I am doing at the moment is going out on jollies, but for now I can’t get on in the dyehouse – it’s too cold to put the water on in there and although the pipes are lagged they have a distance to travel outside and I would hate to have problems. This week we have had friends over to see us from England, planning where to go and what to see was great fun, they are more textiley than historical and…