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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Lazy Saturday Afternoons
I’ve been caught rather by surprise just how much pleasure I get from seeing cricket played on the village green. It is somehow very reassuring, conveying a sense of continuity and steadfastness. It may not be the blacksmith thundering in … Continue reading
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Tagged cricket, effects of beer, kent, Leigh, village cricket, weald
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Village Green Cricket
Growing up in Sussex, cricket was something I rather took for granted. I was a game I’d play with my friends, even when quite young. I was a keen cricketer by the time I was eight or nine. What I … Continue reading
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Tagged cricket, cricket in the weald, history of cricket, Leigh, multiculturalism, norman tebbit, Penshurst, Sussex, village cricket
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The View From Here
The best thing about building a treehouse is that it gives me time to do and not think. I saw a film a while ago that scared the Bejeezus out of me. It was called Wall-E and its terifying vision … Continue reading
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Shingles Schmingles
Eeeeeaaaassssyyyy. Actually I take that back, if only because I know it’s tempting fate. However, despite yesterday’s trepidation, I actually managed to make some shingles. Just one to start with, then another three. I was aware that when splitting wood … Continue reading
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Tagged froe, green woodworking, shaving horse, shingles, tiling, treehouse
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Making Shingles
I went back to John Waller at Bore Place to pick up a couple of oak logs from him. They were a bit larger than he’d anticipated; 18″ of heartwood rather than 12″ and were thus rather more expensive – … Continue reading
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Tagged froe, green woodworking, shingles, splitting wood, treehouse
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Coals to Newcastle? Bread to Chorleywood…
Fifty years ago this year food scientists based in Chorleywood, north west of London, developed the Chorleywood bread process. It’s simple really. Rather than knead bread dough for hours on end you speed the whole process up, positively pulverising it. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Whitley, bread, Bread Matters, CBP, chorleywood, real bread campaign
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Our House…. In the Middle of Our Tree
Oh it’s a ever-ending struggle creating a suitable abode aloft amidst the branches. However things do march on. There is now a parapet with crenallations. Crenelations are very important for repelling boarders, invaders and daddies. There is also a bannister, … Continue reading
The Heffalump Trap
I found myself in the Heffalump Trap the other day. It wasn’t a metaphorical heffalump trap; I hadn’t wandered into a controversy of my own making. It wasn’t even a generic heffalump trap; made by one of the legion of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashdown Forest, childhood, enchanted place, Galleon's Leap, Gill's Lap, heffalumps, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Calleva Atrebatum
OK, something of an excursion from the Weald to the Thames Valley. Calleva Atrebatum is a Roman site between Basingstoke and Reading, close to the village of Silchester. It was a major town in Roman Britain and along with Viroconium, … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, Calleva Atrebatum, Mary Ann Ochota, Roman Britain, Silchester
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