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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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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...
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...