Sunday, 22 November 2009

Welcome Pickle

This is Pickle:



She spends most of her time asleep...

Monday, 9 November 2009

An Apology

I need to make an apology.

Neither to a person...


Nor to an animal...


I need to apologise to my workshop!




I am not ignoring you, I still love you. It's just that other things have been more important than you of late. I have been out of the country for three weeks out of five and lost five weekends in the process.


OK, the daylight hours in which we can enjoy each other's company are reduced but things have changed. I'll be around more over the coming weeks and I promise to come and say hello.


So, which project to embark upon? I think I should get cracking on some Christmas presents. My birch and cherry logs may be a little past their best but I think I'll still be able to get some good wood from them. I also think there is a future in the unusual furniture business, so will need to plunder some more hazel poles...

Sunday, 1 November 2009

End of the season

Congratulations to Jenson Button and the Brawn GP team.

I'm sure not many people put money on them winning a race this season, let alone both championships. There promises to be plenty of driver movement between now and the first race of 2010 in March but there is one departure I am hoping for above anything else - the departure of Jonathan "Push On, Power On, Motor On, Drive On" Legard from the BBC commentary team. He is simply awful. Repeating himself incessantly. Repeating Martin Brundle's well made technical points making the commentary team sound like a badly rehearsed review of a school cross country race. Hopefully the BBC has received sufficient complaints about his ineptitude that the hostility between Legard and Brundle, that was so obvious by the latter's refusal to answer questions posed by the former, is a sign of the departure of the moron from both television and radio once and for all.


Who to replace Jonathan Legard? Me?