Its very cold!

Outside is thick with snow and ice. work shop treasure making has ceased because of limbs dropping off (finger etc.) I have acquired a few more workshop tools, a pair of swan neck pliers and a few more grinding discs.
I have bean pestered by my sisters to go and play in the snow, I stay outside for a few minutes (that turn into hours ) or so it seems when you know something is again going to drop off.

A woody suprise

Last year, November 2008 a very old friend gave me a Perform wood lathe. My family kept it secret from until we arrived to pick it up from him. When he told me about the lathe I was over the moon, and couldn't wait to get it home. But their was a six hour drive before that was going to happen. When it was placed in its new home I was hard at work and I made my first bowl within an hour or so of being back home in the south west again.

This is a picture of a spalted ash fruit bowl