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Sycamore dish finished with beeswax 🐝🐝🐝
March 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Sycamore dish finished with beeswax 🐝🐝🐝
About 18 months ago I took on an old abandoned garden near my cottage. As it isn't attached to any building I felt it needed a name. The Roman name for Portland was Vindelis, so Vindelis Garden it became. It's a slow process of maintenance, design and planting but it's coming together.
March 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
About 18 months ago I took on an old abandoned garden near my cottage. As it isn't attached to any building I felt it needed a name. The Roman name for Portland was Vindelis, so Vindelis Garden it became. It's a slow process of maintenance, design and planting but it's coming together.
The last of last year's garlic 🧄 my favourite crop, alongside alliums of all kinds. I'm not sure why I find growing alliums so compelling, maybe it's the rustic beauty of drying, plaiting and storing for use through the rest of the year? It's certainly about flavour! They are beautiful ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The last of last year's garlic 🧄 my favourite crop, alongside alliums of all kinds. I'm not sure why I find growing alliums so compelling, maybe it's the rustic beauty of drying, plaiting and storing for use through the rest of the year? It's certainly about flavour! They are beautiful ❤️
Last month I was involved in surveying the sarsen stones in the Valley of the Stones in the South Dorset Ridgeway. The second picture is a polissoir, a polishing stone from the Neolithic used for polishing stone axes 5000+ years ago. It's still incredibly smooth to the touch in the top right corner.
March 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Last month I was involved in surveying the sarsen stones in the Valley of the Stones in the South Dorset Ridgeway. The second picture is a polissoir, a polishing stone from the Neolithic used for polishing stone axes 5000+ years ago. It's still incredibly smooth to the touch in the top right corner.
Curiously spalted plate I turned for my wife. The very straight lines I thought was spalting in Ash as that has well defined growth lines, but in between it has medullary rays that look like beech. If it is spalting causing those lines, I've never seen spalting so straight before!
March 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Curiously spalted plate I turned for my wife. The very straight lines I thought was spalting in Ash as that has well defined growth lines, but in between it has medullary rays that look like beech. If it is spalting causing those lines, I've never seen spalting so straight before!
Spalted oak candlestick turned for the birthday of a special friend 😊
March 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Spalted oak candlestick turned for the birthday of a special friend 😊
17 months ago I found an ancient apple tree growing on the South Dorset Ridgeway. Unknown variety, likely related to medieval cultivars with unusual elongated apples. (RHS). Yesterday I heard that we have successfully grafted 5 new trees. The Black Down Beauty is now a cultivar in its own right.
March 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
17 months ago I found an ancient apple tree growing on the South Dorset Ridgeway. Unknown variety, likely related to medieval cultivars with unusual elongated apples. (RHS). Yesterday I heard that we have successfully grafted 5 new trees. The Black Down Beauty is now a cultivar in its own right.
My stock of carving wood relocated and piled up in deepest Askerswell! I wonder what will come out of them? Every new piece different and unique.
March 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
My stock of carving wood relocated and piled up in deepest Askerswell! I wonder what will come out of them? Every new piece different and unique.
I love the naïve horse carvings of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe - they have a simplicity and energy that is beautiful.
The decorated one is made from upcycled pallet wood and flax oil. The dark and light pair are made from the same piece of spalted beech, one finished in flax oil that darkens it.
The decorated one is made from upcycled pallet wood and flax oil. The dark and light pair are made from the same piece of spalted beech, one finished in flax oil that darkens it.
March 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I love the naïve horse carvings of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe - they have a simplicity and energy that is beautiful.
The decorated one is made from upcycled pallet wood and flax oil. The dark and light pair are made from the same piece of spalted beech, one finished in flax oil that darkens it.
The decorated one is made from upcycled pallet wood and flax oil. The dark and light pair are made from the same piece of spalted beech, one finished in flax oil that darkens it.
Playing with paint, the stylised sun to be used in an assemblage I am creating. I really liked this one, including the pencil lines behind it, an undercurrent of dark matter.
March 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Playing with paint, the stylised sun to be used in an assemblage I am creating. I really liked this one, including the pencil lines behind it, an undercurrent of dark matter.
My first post on Bluesky, hopefully escaping the hegemony.
Flowers from my garden in the Isle of Portland, Dorset UK.
Hello world 😃
Flowers from my garden in the Isle of Portland, Dorset UK.
Hello world 😃
March 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My first post on Bluesky, hopefully escaping the hegemony.
Flowers from my garden in the Isle of Portland, Dorset UK.
Hello world 😃
Flowers from my garden in the Isle of Portland, Dorset UK.
Hello world 😃