This is a photo of Andy who great with a camera and who works for Holy Cow the company who designed my website Here it shows Andy photographing one of my new curtain rail products which will shortly be added onto this website along side my pan racks. I hope they will prove complimentary...
I have a desire to create ironwork that lasts forever. At the moment I am working on the minute detail for my new kitchen (an extension on my old one). I intend to furnish all our kitchen cupboard doors and drawers with iron handles and knobs. This has lead to me deciding to introduce a new range which also incorporates kitchen rails and curtain rails with various finials. My favorite is the Thumper named after the tool that thumps in the soil when a tree is planted. I get the majority of my inspiration from nature and will soon be offering all the smaller iron furniture for anyone who is dedicated to detail.
Wow isn’t the summer great! Long days and sunny weather give me the time I need to look after my veg plot make some jams and jelly’s for the winter and drive my pony Murphy. I have also been busy developing a range of curtain poles and door furniture and they will shortly be...
This weekend just gone has been a bank holiday. I knew I would be working on Saturday shoeing and on the Sunday and Monday on my own land tending to my newly sown veggies plus I had hired a digger and a friend to help me dig out a base for some stables. As...
My young son just loves it when I get my anvil out to shoe my own pony. He always asks for a hammer and I let him hammer on a shoe to help me. Maybe he will make some pan racks for me one day!
Coppicing Chestnut trees for fire wood.
The trees I pledge to plant every year have finally turned up. They went astray somewhere but are now here in Suffolk and are in the process of being planted. This year I have approximately 150 of varying species. I just adore planting trees. It feels so good and to make it easier a...
A few words on growing ones own veg and learning to get a work/life balance.
It was partly due to Feng shui that we decided to clear up and really organise our very small kitchen. When space is at a minimum one needs to get creative. Finding the right pot or pan when they are all stacked on top of one another inside a dark cupboard is annoying and...
How green are you? My wife began incorporating green smoothies into her daily life a month before Christmas. The look of them just puts me off but she has convinced me that they have such health boosting properties and regeneration results that I felt I wanted to have a taste finally! I was absolutely...