It’s been a wee while since I finished these off and I’m afraid they’ve been lying around gathering dust until I managed to find some time to take some photo’s of them. As ever, each Poke has been created using a combination of power-carving, hand-carving, sanding, pyrography and oiling to protect the wood from the [...]
Regular readers will realise that there has been something of a focus on gardening, growing, polytunnels and stuff on this blog over the last few months … in fact some might say there has been a general focus on grown stuff, given that I have decided to launch a new site focusing purely on this [...]
Continue reading about Chinese Lanterns, it’s just more GrownStuff
It was about two years ago that someone suggested that I should have a go working with clay when they saw the wood carvings I was turning out, at the time it wasn’t a suggestion I took particularly seriously, not to say that I wasn’t interested I just couldn’t get my head around it as [...]
The final part of the poly-tunnel infrastructure, if you’ll forgive the parlance, has been to install some raised beds … an expense I hadn’t truly accounted for, or indeed, appreciated. Once I’d measured it out I realised I required 63m of wood, not a quantity I was going to fit in the back of my [...]
First things first, happy [belated] birthday Jolene!! Her birthday was actually last Thursday, but alas work commitments took her away to far flung and desperate lands so we had to postpone the day until Saturday. As is now traditional in the house Jo was allowed to choose what sort of cake she wanted and I [...]
I don’t think I’ve owned a pair of plimsolls since, ooooo, forever! If I had to make a guess then I might suggest it’s been at least 25 years, certainly not since leaving primary school! This is something that’s been pulling at me for some time to do and, Mmmmmm, there’s nothing quite like the [...]
Continue reading about Plimsolls … now there’s a blast from the past!
We finally finished the poly-tunnel over the weekend (do you remember when I started this … in June!), during a brief and unexpected break in the weather. If I’m being honest I don’t mind telling you that I was beginning to give-up any hope of getting a calm-enough-warm-enough day to actual get the cover on [...]
The Morningside Makers Market is a monthly affair that takes place at the Columcille Centre in Edinburgh on the first Saturday of every month and accommodates around 30 stalls each featuring arts and crafts made by-and-large by the stall holders themselves, this in itself is a huge attraction, all the crafts for sale are created [...]
Jolene loves these wild daisies that flower in masses up and down the sides of roads, motorways and any other wild verge they can gain a foothold in … little wonder then that a small colony has established themselves in the garden!? They are tremendously nice, although they’re currently competing with some ground elder that [...]
I’ve always been a fan of the Heavy Horse sculpture that stands on the West bound side of the motorway on the way out of Glasgow, it’s particularly impressive when illuminated on a clear night. There are a huge number of fantastic photo’s featuring the sculpture out there on the web although I particularly like [...]
Continue reading about Andy Scott’s M8 Heavy Horse and other sculptures
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