As a way of introducing myself to readers who don't know me and have never read anything I have written, I can think of no better way than a few words about Slow Woodwork. It might help if I also say that I would describe James Krenov, Ernest Gimson and the Barnsleys as what I call Slow Woodworkers. The 'Slow' concept was applied first to food, as a reaction to 'Fast' food. It can be applied to woodwork (and to all work) by analogy.The Slow Food movement was started by people w... Read more...

At last, at last! After a frustrating couple of weeks of intermittently trying to post a blog, I finally did what the old saying says: I went and 'read' the instructions. In this case that means I went and had a lesson with my site designers. I think that has solved some of my problems, depending on the accuracy of my memory and my notes, but as I use a Mac and they are PC people, our communication was a little unwieldy. The Blog part at least was easily solved (I was press... Read more...