The view from here

 Let me describe and idea for you. I’ll start with a question or two.  In what kind of community do we want to live? Is it a community wher...

  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...