Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Small initials with walnut stain and iron gall ink. Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

A Learning Adventure in the Workshop. Recently completed British Campaign Stool made from red oak, Lee Valley hardware, copper rivets and vegetable tanned leather. Used this small project to teach myself basic leatherwork. Comments Off on Campaign Stool.

In the Workshop with Charles Neil. Hard to believe its been 5 years and 245 webisodes we have filmed in our Mastering Woodworking on line show. We have tried to keep pace, everything now is HD . I just want to thank those who have followed us, many of you have been with use from day one . A heart felt thank you . Charles and all the gang.

Thursday, January 17, 2013. Failure to do this has left me with a virtual pile of blog topics I need to prioritise and work through; which brings me to the subject of planning.

Students reporting from the field. All summer long, between all the meetings and field visits and interviews and note-taking, I had been thinking a lot about shelter as a recurring theme that touches on my more direct interests in climate change, food security and health. For such a basic human right, how could shelter be so disparate, so inadequate, so cruel? How does it contribute to good or poor health, to vulnerability and capacity, to life and death? Global.