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The past two days have been foggy, but, even so, tomorrow is a big day for me. The daffodils are out and if the sun shines, our day will be so brightly coloured we will remember the day forever My personal expectations are always high the first day of class.

The price of buying cheap is a costly experience in lost skill I looked through the kitchen stuff at the flea market for knives and scissors, wondering what kind of a culture abandoned old scissors like these in favour of new ones with plastic handles and other poor design features

I listened to a man describe his advancing deafness in terms I had not heard described before. He said that in his case it was not so much that voices and sounds become quieter but that surrounding sounds becomes ever louder and that through the months and years those sounds

The Daffodils are Welcoming New Students this Coming Weekend This coming weekend we start another nine-day workshop where we make dovetailed boxes, a bookshelf unit and an oak table. It's my standard Foundational Course developed for those who take hand work seriously and want to master the exact

There is an event in the USA that will shortly unfold with regards to the final work of Aldren Watson. I have written often of the legacy Aldren Watson left in his books and especially one still in print entitled Hand Tools Their Ways and Their Workings. It might be