Interview with Andrew Grundon, Founder of Signature Signs.
Of course, signs have been hand-painted by professionals for centuries, long before digital printers, with their wacky graphics, flying banners and hundreds of different fonts, were at the touch of everyone’s buttons. There…
Interview with Paul Cook of 'WoodArtWords'; Wood-Carver, Poet and Artist.
Working with wood to create objects of use, from pre-historic fire starters and spears, to rudimentary wheels and timber-framed structures, is age-old. Humankind has demarcated itself as unique within the animal kingdom, by…
...Also known as ‘Mucky Mouth Pie’.
Has there ever been a fruit with as many different names: wimberry, whinberry, winberry, windberry, bilberry, fraughan, hurtleberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, black-heart and myrtle berry (after the wimberry’s Latin name Vaccinium myrtillus)? They are…
Interview with Yvonne Green, Principal of the Boat Building Academy, Dorset.
One of the most iconic yet familiar embodiments of the triumph of mankind over nature is the boat, an invention borne out of necessity, dating back to prehistoric times. The expertise and craftsmanship…
Five tips on gold panning by a world champion gold panner - Vince Thurkettle.
It is not quite as dramatic as the Hollywood film ‘Paint your Wagon’, or quite as harsh as real-life prospecting would have been in the mid-1800s in Gold-Rush California, however, standing up to…
