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  I'm so glad we didn't decide to fit a wood burner when we bought our current house. Instead we took the chimney out and eventually...

 These have a wide variety of names in America, but essentially they're boxes designed for use as an outdoor kitchen. So I'll call m...

 In previous post I talked about writing about an idea, an idea to start a movement. I suggested a very simple aim: To leave the world in a ...

 Some things are simple, fairly inexpensive things we can all do to reduce our carbon footprint. Some things fall into a more expensive cate...

 This is a generalised "I" because it's really about what we can do, but it can't be me prescribing a list of things for y...

 This blog has always been a bit of a mixture of things. I've talked about woodwork, railway modelling, theology and probably a few thin...

 I have two grandsons and decided to make a mud kitchen for them as a Christmas present. I toyed with the idea of taking a couple of pallets...