Haven’t been around much lately as work has been fairly full on over recent weeks. Happily it seems to have calmed down a little bit now so I can start to look at doind some more interesting things. There is a plethora of jobs to do; we need to harvest the pumpkins from the patch
Well, they may not exactly be the world’s most technical pieces of furniture but I did get two stools together before the end of today. They still need staining and varnishing but they are fully functional (I have sat on them to them and taken them for a “test drive”) so all is good! I
As you may have seen in my previous post last week I went on an incense blending day school (and a great time I had!). However, it did bring to mind one of the many “I really should do something about that” things that I haven’t done anything about. Meditation; it is really good for
I made this pendant and earring set a couple of weeks ago for my lovely Mo in Law’s birthday but had to wait to do a post until I could include the picture. I didn’t make the chain (no surprises there) but the rest of it was all me. It was a bit of a
Yesterday we went to the incense blending worshop and had an absolutely great time. The workshop was held in an open sided timber shelter at West Stow Anglo Saxon Village, a lovely venue – if you haven’t been there you are missing out. Although we have been to West Stow several times times before this
Spent a bit of time looking at things getting more and more baffled – the blogosphere just didn’t seem to work by the same editing rules as the rest of reality. In the end I asked Rebecca (fab daughter) to help out. At first she was equally baffled which gave me a warm glow of
You may have noticed a certain hiatus in the world of Chris blog. This is substantially down to me not sitting down and finding out how this blog package actually works. Today’s challenge is therefore to stop looking out of the window at the rain, log on and start learning!
This is my very first “proper” blog post and it is all being done in a bit of an unseemly rush (which I will probably have to come back to and tidy up) but I really wanted to start my blog today because… I had set the Summer solstice as a deadline day to start
Aside from being 52 and a bit “cuddly” – you already got that from my intro, you might want to know a bit more about the person behind the blog. My name is Chris, I am married and a dad. I work (lots) and am still trying to get on top of the DIY in
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