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Well That Sucked!
Well that sucked! My long anticipated Christmas holiday that is. When you work from home like we here at Kaizen Bonsai do it's very difficult to get a real break. Christmas, or as some like to call it now 'the holidays' is one time of the year when we can pull up the drawbridge and take some time to chill out and decompress. Neither of which actions I have the ability to either understand or achieve. Since I started work at age 12 it's been work, work work and the only thing that stops that happening is physical injury or sickness. Even when we close our metaphorical doors the work never...
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Bonsai Tree Scappage Scheme
I was busy replacing some knackered benches over the holiday and whilst clearing up and poking around in the back hedge I turned up an old brake disk. This rusty bit of iron came from an MG/Austin project from the late fifties I did years ago. Not too sure how it...
A Cautionary Tale
Being Christmas I thought some of you lovely people might have time for a long winded diatribe so here it is.... A Cautionary Tale We humans are creatures of habit. It may be fashionable to ‘mix it up’ but at the end of the day most of us are at our best when fully...
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas to all our wonderful customers, supporters and fans. We have had a simply amazing year in 2019. During the holidays you are welcome to place orders but do be aware Kaizen Bonsai will be closed from 4pm Friday 20th December until 9am 6th January 2020....
Pearls of Wisdom
Fictional characters are renowned for saying the wisest things. If it were possible to rehearse life we would all be clever bastards, wouldn't we? Anyone know who said "The world don't run on love" ?* Forrest Gump's Mama said "Life was like a box of chocolates, you...
A New Challenge.
Anyone who stops by here regularly will know I don't consider myself an 'artist'. That's all too pretentious for a working class and comprehensive school educated (partly) boy from Norfolk. I just suffer from an over-active imagination and an obsessive dedication to...
The Tale of Two Maples
This gets a bit long, if you are in a hurry you can skip the preamble.... Preamble. For decades now I have been telling folk they need to learn to read their trees. A great deal of the problems folk experience with cultivating bonsai are related to erroneous half...