As soon as I was given the book Hitty – her First Hundred Years, I started hoping to find a little wooden doll in an antique shop, a tide pool, or a hay-filled barn. Forty years later I found Judy Brown’s Carve your own Hitty kit and I took the blank, the knives and the instruction book with me on a visit to the land of the Hittites. I left little chips of wood here and there – in a caravan Hotel in Gaziantep…