20 February 2021
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That’s a cryptic title but, if you saw the purple tinged swelling on my finger, you’d start to get a clue as to what inspired it. Jane and I removed a bit more of the wall that runs along the … Continue reading
12 February 2021
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One of the challenges of being a double bassist is storing the thing. One option is to keep it in its case and leaning up against a wall but that is a strong disincentive to practicing the thing. In consequence, … Continue reading
5 February 2021
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A fair amount of daylight hours have been spent in the shed. Not all – I also took an early morning exercise walk which let me pop into B&Q (cable ties towards the polytunnel construction, which I need to get … Continue reading
3 February 2021
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One of the challenges of working in the shed is that the light fades quickly as dusk falls. If I’m out there, it either means downing tools as soon as I notice and leaving an unfinished mess or pressing on … Continue reading
27 January 2021
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This afternoon, I finished off setting up the first of the log stores I wanted to create with the pallets I was breaking up the other day. I did most of the building last weekend, when there was a bit … Continue reading
17 January 2021
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The wonderful thing about building with cheap materials — like the wood from those pallets I have been taking apart this week — is the freedom to develop a design. Here the task was to create a gate in front … Continue reading
16 January 2021
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I picked up some more pallets today so had a bit more deconstruction to attend to before turning to putting new things together. I’d done a bit more research on taking pallets apart and I was keen to try out … Continue reading
15 January 2021
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I am planning to build some more firewood storage in the garden and I have collected some pallets to use for that: free wood that stands up pretty well to sitting outside. I used pallets for wood storage in Oxford … Continue reading
5 January 2021
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Jane and I got our first wood burning stove in the spring of 2014. We were fortunate to find some free sources of wood quite early on, like a big old conifer that had fallen at the back of a … Continue reading
2 January 2021
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It is typically the case that it takes longer to put something back together than it did to disassemble it in the first place. Given that it took several hours to take down the tool store, it probably isn’t too … Continue reading