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Ho! Bloody Ho! It’s Christmas!
Ho! Bloody Ho! It's Christmas! So, here we are at the end of another year pretty much, just the excesses of Ho! Bloody Ho! It's Christmas! and new years to endure before we launch into 2024 filled with hopes and dreams. I have never been one for 'marking' days. These so called high days come and go and I genuinely could not care less, i don't even celebrate my own birthday. However I know normal folk like to mark such occasions which is fine by me, knock yourselves out, quite literally if you want too. Ho! Bloody Ho! etc'. I guess there's merit in taking a look back over the last year even...
Busy Few Weeks at Kaizen Bonsai & Video.
You’ll guess from the title of this post that it’s been a Busy Few Weeks at Kaizen Bonsai. Not that we have been selling much particularly, just enough to keep the wheels on.
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The Trees Apprentice
It’s been a long time since I passed a significant watershed in my bonsai journey. I have now been studying and practising bonsai for more of my life than not. That might not be significant for some who started young but I was not a spotty kid. Years ago somebody came...
Thank You!
Thanks to everyone who sponsored me. Our local group has raised around £18,000 and worldwide the Distinguished Gentlemans Ride is closing in on $6 million raised. THANK YOU! Okay Peeps. It's that time of year again when I make an appeal for your money. Not for...
How Things Change.
Here in Dear Old Blighty we are in the midst of change on a scale not seen since WW2. In general we people hate change, it represents uncertainty and is a harbinger of things unknown. I have reached an age now that I have learned, without doubt, that only one thing...
Bonsai, It’s All Too Complicated
Bonsai Made Simple: Why Horticulture is the Real Art I am a simple fellow. Born into simpler times, the 1960's, I have spent my life among simple working class folk who live simple lives. None of my compadres ever went to university and most of us couldn't spell...
Crapshoot Pays Off.
I know very well that most folk have a great deal of difficulty in bonsai when it comes to sorting out the way forward for their raw material. A few people are seemingly blessed with a sixth sense when it comes to such issues. I have no answer for this but I do know...
Summer Time Special Rant
A lot of people tell me they like my regular rantings posted here. I like to keep them related to bonsai but this time not. I got very angry recently and as I am weird I just sat down and typed. I guess that's better than going out and breaking heads. So here's my...