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Design Direction 25 Jul 2013 | 02:34 pm
I believe I may have previously confessed my hopeless inability to remember the difference between an ovolo and an ogee, and my tendency to get a nasty headache if forced to differentiate betwixt an a...
Steamboat Arabia 22 Jul 2013 | 01:46 pm
Any Kansas City readers out there in virtual land? What can you tell me about the Steamboat Arabia? I ran across this sort of Missouri River obviously-not-as-old (1856) Mary Rose-a-like-ish archaeolog...
Bamboo Basketry 18 Jul 2013 | 02:22 pm
Basket weaving has something of an "occupational therapy/you're probably cuckoo" connotation to it to my mind, if I'm honest. But on the other hand there's always something very calming and vaguely hy...
Faded Glories 15 Jul 2013 | 01:41 pm
Whilst looking for something else completely, and not even for the apparently obvious key word, I ran across this set of photos taken at the abandoned works of George Barnsley & Sons, file maker, leat...
Got Retro Taped 11 Jul 2013 | 01:20 pm
Whilst stumbling over the Handyman's Birthday card last week, I also found something infinitely more interesting. Cast your mind back, if you will, to the very welcome acquisition of my Great-Grandfat...
Woodcut 8 Jul 2013 | 02:09 pm
Been published a little while now, so I'm probably well behind the curve on this, but I just ran across a book called Woodcut by Bryan Nash Gill. (Incidentally, good artistic and printing credentials ...
Handyman's Birthday Card 4 Jul 2013 | 01:57 pm
Well, they tried. They aren't entirely on target, but they tried. But good news; the matching wrapping paper also has a coping saw on it, and they got that absolutely right. And you know how riled up...
Fifteen Second Wonder 1 Jul 2013 | 03:55 pm
Well fifteen seconds must have been the maximum time it took to guess the wotsit. Extremely minimalist tape dispenser it is. Although stamps is an option too, despite my first reaction being "Huh?" B...
Fifteen Minute Wotsit 28 Jun 2013 | 08:25 pm
Shock happenings chez Alf. By dint of "dawdling" over cleaning the lawnmower, fifteen minutes was snatched in the w'shop. *gasp!* So having looked the seven hundred things I should be doing in there f...
Scrub This Page 20 Jun 2013 | 05:19 pm
Okay, all you need to know is I'm doing this daft thing and that this particular page had the instruction to "Scrub this page" and absolutely no-one handy will get this joke but you lot should. So her...
