In 2018 I was introduced to a new material. As goes it with most things in my professional career, I was asked if I could make something and said yes, thinking I could rush home and YouTube the knowledge

It is always nice to go back to the Stendhal Music Festival. Even though it is on the same island it feels a bit exotic because I am going to a different country. The North of Ireland is part of Britain,

Preamble Is it just me, or have we forgotten about that whole environmental apocalypse thing we were facing? I remember the days when respect for the world around us was the most important thing we had

I am going to ease myself back into posting. I will admit that finding the time to write has become much more difficult since my wife's passing. Having all the responsibility to run a house, raise our

It has been nearly 11 months since I last wrote to the blockchain. I needed time to gather my thoughts. My wonderful wife, mother of our son, my beautiful muse and best friend, has died. There is no easy

I had this old Powerwasher in my shed which hadn't been used for over 10 years. It was a pretty good one and I remember I used it to wash my whole house top to bottom many years ago. A few weekends back

As the summer ends and the winter begins to show its cold face, heating starts to come to mind. As with everything at the moment in my life I am delayed, delayed in getting to do the things that need doing

The summer is ending, and I thought it was high time I did a quick fruit tree update. In all, it has been a mixed bag of ups and downs. I found out from my brother who is a pro gardener, that my issue

That was too close for comfort. I nearly got scammed out of my Hive account. After over 7 years on chain, I almost made a fatal mistake. I was talking to who I thought was a trusted party but it turned

This will be the last of this type of post for a while ( happily). Another one-day demonstration carve with some workshops thrown into the mix. I had cut back on my international travel in 2018 to spend

Looking back over my last few sand sculpture posts I see that all the sculptures I shared were just quick one-day demonstration pieces, nothing more than 3D sketches and not what I would call real sand

It was late in the evening when I arrived in Ballyheigh, County Kerry after driving three hours, straight from a day's work. I was knackered and fell into my hotel room bed without any food. It was a nice

This will be a short post as I don't have many interesting images of the sculpture. And, as I remember, I never even finished it due to bad weather. I had been double booked with this project in Saint

As I watch my son grow I wonder what his future will be. As a parent, I try to nurture his interests and not pressure him too much about the academic side of things. Luckily he seems to already have that

I finally made my raised bed planters for vegetable. I know, I know, I am too late for this year but at least they are done and I have a few seasons to enrich the soil before I plant my first crop. It

It's been seven years since I discovered Hive and coming to this Blockchain I didn't know what to expect. It was like the first day in a new school, not knowing who I was or how I would fit in. I lurked,

It has been a while since I shared a sand sculpture. I have keeping things in Chronological order and had other projects to write posts about that I made in the start of 2018. Now, I'm back with this first

I've been meaning to give a bit of a garden update for a while now but to be honest I have just been managing to keep it from going wild and becoming a jungle. All my plans to plant veg, put in a pond