Rural craft
It’s not easy to write about rural crafts — we may live on a small island but we work in a complex landscape of variety and vocabulary. When I was asked to write about dry stone walling, my first reaction was, “Do you mean dyking?”
I understand that to many readers dykes are ditches, but for all I tried to fit in and write about walls and walling, the words just didn’t fit. Part of me wants to apologise for using
