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A Spring in my Step
A spring in my step is the best way to describe how I’m feeling today but before I say why I need to give a little background to the story. One day totally out of the blue someone I hardly knew turned up. He is a mechanic by trade but was helping clear a totally neglected field of overgrown gorse bushes. The back of his pick-up was full of gorse – the biggest I’ve ever seen. I have plenty of what I consider to be overgrown gorse in the hedge in my field. The largest stems are a bit over an inch, maybe 30mm. These ones were up to 4…
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My New Gallery! Woodturning on Display
At last, I have my woodturning on display. One of the advantages of a small-holding is out-houses and sheds. A big incentive to moving to where I live now is the space it offered me for the woodworking. The cottage is very small but I have enough sheds for workshop, storage space for wood (both ‘in the round’ and converted into planks) and even space left over for ‘all the things that will come in handy sometime’. One of these buildings (appropriately a wooden one) I have been converting into a little gallery. It means that I can now offer a much more appropriate setting for people to view the work than when they…