
Since the garden Open Day in May, I’ve had a couple of bench “commissions” and though I say it myself they look pretty good. The bench is a repair and the...
Yes, it was barter time when I was asked if I could repair an old garden bench. It just happened that the person asking is also the person from whom we...
This is a tale of Three Bridges. Not the railway station near Gatwick, but the three bridges over our stream. The first, in the main garden I made up out of...
I suppose that it is one of those delightful quirks of the English language where two very diverse meanings accrue to one word. ‘To Forge’: 1) to make new items by the...
Since attending welding and blacksmithing classes a couple of years ago, I’ve been making a few things under the (IMHO) catchy brand name of MabFab – short for Mabberley Fabrications if...
We have recently borrowed a Thermal Imaging camera from The Green Valleys, ostensibly to check on the insulation properties of the house (and others in the valley), but it was interesting...