I spoke too soon! The websites have been up, down, up, down and up again the past week. At the moment (and for the past couple of days) they’re up, but its becoming quite a pain and if we have too many more interruptions I’l give serious consideration to migrating to a new host — [...]

I’m still here and I’m still code crunching away. I’m doing some websites for a couple of friends so I’ve been brushing up on my css and html skills. I’d only dabbled a bit in the css previously so there’s been a bit of a steep learning curve there. That on top of all the [...]

Some of the things I make - spurred on primarily from doing the book Woodlore - are handplanes and other woodworking tools. I started doing them about 17 years ago when I wanted some small violinmakers planes for making the musical instruments I made. The antique planes cost too much to buy from the collectors [...]

Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about different things that I could write about on here because I didn’t want to get too bogged down just on what’s been happening lately with Amy. I mean not that there’s any problem with that, per se’. It’s my life after all and obviously this site [...]