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ages ago whilst at woodward bros i did my first real piece, a walnut and cedar drinks cabinet after reading krenov's the fine art of cabinetmaking

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for the new workshop we are about to make some stands he suggests. whatever happened to the old set i wonder

and today at the age of nearly 54 i finally ground something properly for the first time after adapting a jig he explains in the same book and i am about to learn honing. good grief

this after going on about how i wanted to teach the goobs sharpening

"To do good work year after year you need sharp tools, the sense of being at ease, and the feeling that things are going well."

fantastic craftsman and a great teacher

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the architecture of anarchy ... the work of christopher alexander and the nature of order

bismillah inshallah - in the name of the creation i begin

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i've been meaning to catch up with richard dawkins' the god delusion for a while. i now need no further convincing of the non existense of god so i can stop reading round the topic. we have however just purchased a copy of the gospel of the flying spaghetti monster which noé will blog about in a little while

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the politics and culture of decline is the third of anthony daniel's (writing as theodore dalrymple) books that i've read. i don't agree with everything he asserts but he writes so well its a pleasure watching him demolish sloppy liberal thinking and he is right about a great deal

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we have found a website in metafilter's favourites called manjula's kitchen. It's an amazing find; full of bengali recipes that we have wanted for ages!
manjula reminds daddy of his mum.
we made rasmali two days after we found the site and it tasted absolutely great, just like the stuff we used to buy.
we're about to make nan khatai. we'll give some to tilly and helen and karo and mummy. and US of course. we're tripling the recipe to get lots.
we have just made the connection; manjula (manjula's kitchen) and manjula (apu's wife from the simpsons)

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i was surprised by how much of this i knew having absorbed it through the hegemony of american culture and by how little i know of british history in comparison

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we cried through the whole of the second half of this film

it is based on a real story which makes it all the more sad and we recommend it

and so does belle

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