I’ve mentioned before about my annual to-do list, it runs from April to April and contains things I’d like to accomplish that year. It comprises, unsurprisingly, five sections each containing, more unsurprisingly, five items to-do. One of these sections is books I’d like to read and this past year Don Quixote was one of those. If ...
Regular readers will have noticed that it’s been quiet around here lately. The last few months have been pretty hectic with a great deal of change and I just haven’t had the time to keep posting as regular as I normally like to. I’ve yet again not taken my camera out as much as I ...
I don’t tend to use this blog to promote one the companies I work for (Toyella). Previously I’d only talked about how much I like the EeBoo studios, one of the brands that we sell. I choose not to obviously promote for a variety of reasons, one is that I like to keep the blog ...
A couple of weeks back Em and me had been in Birmingham for the food festival, which we thought was going to be as it had been in previous years but turned out to be, well, nowhere near that. On the plus side though it gave us chance to have a look at the ‘Birmingham ...
One of the things I would like to do in life is make my own furniture and I admire anyone that does. I have made some in the past and think wistfully of the time I have spent sawing and sanding (and forming the odd curve with plywood I might like to add). There is ...
I honestly thought I’d posted already this year. Turns out not. So Happy New Year! Hope you had a good one? Pretty good segue that into this post. With the start of the New Year (now three weeks ago) many people are looking to start a new hobby or what have you. Most people at ...
I discovered Fears and Kahn through a recent post about some Midcentury seating, it was the Alpha sofa that really took my fancy. Regular readers of the blog will know that Em and me are partial to a bit of midcentury modernism. Interested, I decided to check out their website and find out a bit ...
Preparations and packing for the move continues (well, by the time this is published we should be nearly all packed) and the discovery of things forgotten about also continues. Coming across this Sony Watchman brought back a few memories and it still works (for a little while longer at least). No sooner had I found ...
Well, here we are again. I’m enjoying these posts more then any other right now, hence the photo count is increasing. I’ll try and edit a bit better next time (I won’t). Anyway, here’s some bits and pieces that happened (as the title would suggest). As usual in no particular order. The Firefly had a ...
Sorry, this isn’t going to be a post about the finer details of how to put together some flatpack furniture (I’ve learnt my lesson there), but more about an article that I found interesting. I don’t class myself as a hoarder per se. In ‘Do Androids Dream…’ Phillip K Dick coined the term ‘kibble’ – ...