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Today the winds are ripping through North Wales from the Atlantic and the rain is lashing the trees relentlessly. I hear our cat outside by the cat door and Liz let’s him in. The castle walls will be dark, depressing grey when I arrive, but once I’m inside

Michael Painter carves anything that draws his attention and carves in great detail the things that others might consider impossible to create with such fine detail. As people walked the aisle at the show, his presence their might have mattered very little had his work not attested to the fineness

Christmas means gift giving and struggling to find that different gift, yet find something meaningful at the same time can sometimes thwart us. There is always time at Christmas for joy, and preparations are key to a restful holiday. Today I worked to perfect some things that will be gifts

This week I must finish off the order for 35 wooden spoons for the USA. I decided to make them from scraps; fire wood or recycled wood from a safe resource. Elm is a wood I and all woodworkers of old loved to work with. Some old doors were discarded