What are you all up to

"Those Gavel's are beautiful but suspect they would be more difficult to sell at a local event but would probably sell well online at a decent price?"

Thank you, David.  They were actually a set of three which I gave to a Lodge in Barton-on-Humber, of which I was a founder member - many years ago.  I'm no longer involved and wonder if they are still going strong! 

The wood is a tropical hard-grained wood from Africa - called Mahuhu - quite difficult to get hold of but a joy to turn and polish - it almost polishes itself!

Your chair is superb 👏👏

Sorry to hear that you and OH have been poorly Milliehull,  do hope you will be feeling better soon.  Not a good time of year when you feel under the weather, we hardly got light yesterday here it was so gloomy, fortunately it’s a beautiful day today.  In fact I’ve just seen a butterfly!  

Your Windsor chair is really beautiful Richard, such skill, well done.  

I have also had the crafting financial woes in the past, so much so I now do things for my pleasure and accept that they are gifts or to be sorted out by someone when I’ve gone!!  I enjoy the process of making so that will do me.  

Best wishes to you and your OH Millie, I hope you both feel better soon. ‘Tis that time of year now, sniffs and coughs abound. Hoping it’s nothing worse.

We enjoyed our trip to Cayton Village. Site is much as expected, very nice staff, lovely facility block. We had a HS with awning pitch that was absolutely huge. Upper site was closed, that looks the nicer bit of the site from our point of view, (more trees and shrubs). It’s a bit open and sort of car parky, but nice enough. Bottom site was around half full, so not busy at all over our two midweek nights there, mainly MH’s. We did spend an evening in a Glamping Cabin with friends, these are very nice, tight with four adults in, but then perfect for a couple. Interestingly, our friends paid £46 for their two nights in a cabin. We paid £59.40 for a pitch for two nights. Not quite sure how the Club arrives at its pricing, but I remain deeply sceptical. Cabin for us next time🤷‍♀️ 

I am leaving the advertising, and admin to my daughter, she has added my stuff to her shop.  2 spurtles sold so far, one went to Inverness and one to London.  I will need to make a few more!

Beautiful chair Richard! 

We have two spurtles K, bought in Scotland years ago. Both get plenty of use, as we love porridge, and great for soup making. A woodworking/turning neighbour makes lots of nice French bread cutting/serving boards. He’s currently making a raised dog bowl holder for us, out of a seasoned log. Just hollowing out a space in the top for dog bowl to rest in without it tipping or flying out. He’s made me some lovely turned wood curtain pulls as well, they clip onto each end of curtain to pull them without touching material. Nicer than the plastic ones. He does a nice line in HP wizard wands for children as well👍 

I made up my Xmas present last week. Freshwater pearls, with a lovely handmade silver pendant with more pearls. 

We have treated ourselves to a new television. Not that there was anything wrong with the previous one but I rather fancied a larger screen although Margaret was not convinced! Had we not had £200 worth of JL vouchers the status quo might have been maintained. We have gone for another Sony but this one is a 50 inch one and that was the maximum we could get into the space without a major room redesign! My eldest son helped me do the initial set up but I am not sure we have it right yet! Youngest son has just got back from Paris and he is the family tech expert so will await until he has time to check everything over. You get very little in the way of user instruction with appliances these days and yet they provide a thick book in many languages about safety etc but very little of how the thing actually works!!! 

David

It is more usual for modern appliances to have a built in help menu or guidance on line. My LG TV has both.

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Irony is still to be found in some of our commercial companies.

We have our Broadband and Landline phone deal due to expire. Personally I would do away with a landline and phones but MiL wouldn't be able to cope so needs must. So I spoke to BT about upgrading the Broadband and cut a long story short we agreed on an upgrade and a new hub. Engineers visit arranged to instal Fibre connection. He duly came. 

We got an email from them almost immediately, like you do with everything these days. A "How did we do Survey". Surprised there wasn't a wagging dog tail emoji after it.

Anyway I accessed it or tried to. Internal error, page couldn't be found. Here is our flagship Communication company whose own webpage wouldn't load properly to tell them how they did. 🤷🏼

We have decided to do away with our landline when our present contract with Plusnet ends soon, we never use it, all it does is attract scam calls.  We have decided to go with 3 Home Broadband.  I suppose we will need to inform our bank, and a lot of other people (eventually), we have had the number for 35 years.

I have been kept busy making more spurtles, 8 so far, as the original 5 have all been sold on Etsy, and I have invested in some beech blanks to make more of them, they do seem to be popular!

Smaller items are easier to sell, easy and not too expensive to send, but I am hoping DD can list some of my larger items too as I have quite a few larger bowls and other items "in stock", taking up cupboard space which OH is keen to repossess.