The only contemporary adult portrait – by her sister, Cassandra, which shows a wonky cross-patch, staring with mild malevolence out of the past – is gone and replaced by William Home Lizars' sanitised doll. |
I hope you will let me know if you think I have invented a good plan to cure a cross-patch. |
Apart from the disappearing house, there is a house made from a cross-patch of old wood. |