Yorick and I are to be married next August, and to celebrate we will build a barn…in three days! We’ve never really been the marrying type. The whole concept has always mystified me and, to be honest, the perceived freedom of not being married has suited us both very well. We’re with each other because…
Read MoreOff to the lab
Lobelia, Morag and Retta are, I regret to say, about to venture forth to meet all sorts of unpleasant procedures at the UKTI testing lab. If I could save their sweet tweedy skins I would but legislation and any number of shops calls for a CE mark. I have told them how nice the scientist…
Read MoreNetwork Apathy
Selvedge magazine are having a party to celebrate five years in existence. Five years of delightful, distinctive and even informative copy. A magazine with whom I have advertised since it’s very first issue without a single regret and plenty of results. And yet…can I be bothered to travel 1000 miles to sip champagne on a…
Read MoreEnd of an episode
The tidal wave of orders which began accumulating in August and peaked in October have now subsided. I can finally stop paddling like a panicked dog and can now pant, relieved, on the shore…as it were. Saying that, the last three days have been full, but in a peaceful and civilized kind of way. I’ve…
Read MoreCreative accompaniment
What do you listen to when you’re making? I’ve now had a good 6 months of back to back radio 4 and really, one can only tolerate so much babble about the habits of migrating birds or the emancipation of the flapper girl not to mention the current trend of saturating the airwaves with endless…
Read MoreGo on…fence me in.
Ow!! My hands are hurting, my stomach muscles feel as though I’ve been abducted by Jane Fonda, my legs ache and my face feels as raw as a zested lemon, but I’m happy. We have achieved seven straining posts, a river diversion and the removal of about 200 metres of old barbed wire and rotten…
Read MoreHere’s Hamish and Hamish…and Hamish
Hamish triplets waiting to head off to various corners of the UK.
Read MoreInsert to insane
Today was an admin. day. The first in a very long while and kind of forced upon me by the unfortunate circumstance of being stranded at home without motor or functioning bicycle. To add insult to injury the rain lashed horizontally across the island and one could be forgiven for thinking Lismore was simply a…
Read MoreFurther investigations into Creative Elimination
Oh wait a minute. Maybe CE stands for something else…cluttersome extras, corporate entrails… So today was consumed by investigations into the legalities of toy making! Firstly, thank you all for your very useful and insightful comments on my last post. Recommended blog posts have been visited, options digested and now I have a few precious…
Read MoreButton police!
OH DEAR. I’m feeling rather guilty and a bit forlorn. I’ve just been contacted by a certain on line shop as to whether my Hamish, Clarris’s and Lobelias are approved by the… (regulators of such things) as child’s toys. I had a sneaky suspicion this issue was lurking in some back alley waiting to pounce.…
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