12 April 2012

Hello everyone, well Easter has come and gone and the good old British weather persists, ever a topic for conversation. My wife and I had an enjoyable if blusterous break in the ancient town of Rye in East Sussex and myself never really able to put work or at least woodwork aside, I enjoyed studying the architecture and wooden structures for detail such as the brackets, corbels, pargetting (decorative mortar render) and jettied upper storeys found on the timber framed old houses in the town centre. Down at the harbour plenty of examples of boats in various stages of repair or disrepair and huge timber reinforced fibreglass moulds for creating new boat hulls. All this information goes in of course and will be regurgitated at some point no doubt, as my erstwhile deputy Simon, referred to in his last blog as my ‘factoids’. I suppose I am an information sponge, largely useless stuff but it’s all there waiting to be disseminated on a hopefully willing audience, maybe that’s why I’m an editor? A desire to pass on knowledge that I’ve learnt along the way, yes I suppose so….

Until next time, Anthony.

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