The view from here

 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...

 I seem the remember reading somewhere that it takes 3 months to build a new habit. I assume that was a good habit because a bad habit takes...

 Here's a photo of the table with the finish applied and the "Egg" installed!

To be honest it's not really a BBQ table, it's actually for one of those outdoor oven/grill things that look like a rather large egg...

 I've been asked to design and build a specialised table for a BBQ. Well actually it's more like an outdoor oven in the shape of a r...

 I'm not sure if, or even whether, I want to try and make money from woodwork. I'm certainly not going to pretend to be a master cab...

 A friend asked me to build a simple cabinet for them to replace one the was falling apart. They delivered the old cabinet for me to use as ...

 Our utility room is a mess. We have loads of stuff that needs sorting and the storage is a mixture of old bits of furniture that was in the...

I wanted to do a quick post about making panels with rebates in them without using a router. You still need at least a circular saw, but if ...

 Everyone who uses power tools to sand wood and uses some form of hose attachment  for dust collection, knows what a pain it is dragging the...

 I've seen plenty of examples of flip-top carts and have thought about building one for a long time. I have a disc/belt sander that coul...

 SoI've busy in the workshop. I usually do a few things over Christmas, but we're also in lockdown again so there are more things I ...

In the run up to Christmas I came across some designs for star decorations. Using some scrap oak flooring and some scrap from a shed I bui...

 I've followed Ron Paulk on YouTube for a long time, ever since I first came across his workbench. If you haven't seen Ron's in...

 We had some new roof windows fitted and I decided I wanted to trim them out rather than have the window fitters do it. There were moments w...

 I played tennis a few months ago. Just a practice hit with another player followed by some points. We played a game we call "21"....

The simple answer is that I want to get better. I want to be more competitive. Yes, I want to win, but there is more. I like learning. I lik...

Having designed and printed the fence stop for my simple fence system, I decided that I could refine it and also build a flag stop. There we...

I needed to make a simple fence system for a new bench top I made. Some time ago I incorporated an MFT-style top into a bench in my workshop...

I extracted this from The Guardian so that I had a record of these things. It is copied as it appeared on the web version of the paper. I am...