i We took our Bronze age boat to Faversham to use the slipway at Alan Stayley’s boatyard. Boatyards are very photogenic places so here are a bunch of random pics. I love the mug above, if you are a boatbuilder, when you handle breaks off your much you stick back together with boat epoxy. We covered our boat in hessian…
Folk who followed my bronze age boatbuilding last year may enjoy this update. We built the boat as the centrepiece of a traveling Bronze Age exhibition. The boat has now spent 6 months in France, 6 months in Belgium and come home. Now it was time to take it apart, put it back together whilst undertaking genuine experimental archaeology to…
Last night and this morning I have been writing an essay on my response to an art exhibition titled “Robin Wood’s Cores Recycled”, it was quite an enjoyable if slightly self indulgent experience. The exhibition is a collection of pieces by some of the best wood artists in the world and as a starting point they were all given one…
This delightful little book was published last week. For those that don’t know craftivism is a mixture of craft and activism. Craftivists get together and do stuff to raise awareness about issues and attempt to change the world for the better. The link between craft and campaigning for a better world is long perhaps Gandhi (a keen hand spinner) and…
Well here is my new blog and website. Hopefully regular blog readers will have found your links brought you straight through to the new site. It has been live for a couple of weeks whilst we ironed out glitches before saying goodbye to the old blogger site. It has been a crazy few weeks completing the content and going live…
Well it’s all over now but SPOONFEST 2013 was a blast. If you’ve not heard of it SPOONFEST is a gathering of 230 or so wonderful people from 11 countries sharing the love of carving wooden spoons. We provide a huge marquee, some of the best teachers in the world, great wood, campfires, BBQs and lots of tools but the real…
I love eating from wooden bowls, I love hearing from folk who eat from my wooden bowls and I love most of all seeing photos of those bowls in use. I tell folk that they get nicer as they are used more but pictures of well used bowls tell the story so much better. So please do send me pics…
Most blog readers will know I enjoy using a well balanced axe, probably not many know I am also a keen juggler and have lots of friends who were profesional performers. I once rode my unicycle around the top of the world trade centre. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw a show advertised bringing together my loves of woodworking…
Regular visitors will know that the bowls in my gallery pages are often showing as sold, I don’t get round to updating as often as I should and often bowls find homes quite quickly once I do photograph them. Today I put all these new bowls up on my gallery page For folk in London you can also see my…
Majorca is famous for cheap package tours to the sun, stag and hen parties at Magaluf and the likes. There is another side to the island, the North coast is mountainous, wild and has a long distance footpath running along it’s length, perfect for a cheap camping holiday in May. I went with my son Ollie and best mate Chris,…
