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Enough Already!
It's amazing to me these days how everybody knows everything about everyone. Seems anyone with a working mouth is an expert on most everything and the affairs of everyone. However in the case of what I get up to that's evidently not the case. I get fucked right off by being told, by folk I don't know, all about what exactly I am doing. So let me put the record straight before some dumb shits get the better of us. It seems every year or so I have to deal with this bullshit and it's pissing me off. Just so you heard it from me ....... Kaizen Bonsai is not closing it's doors and we are...
Waste Not, Want Not
As a young lad I was lucky enough to have some wonderful grandparents that were influential throughout my formative years. Waste not, want not was a phrase I heard regularly. On my fathers side my grandad served in the merchant navy and ended up in the water at least once. On my mothers side my grandad worked in munitions manufacture in the midlands. I have wonderful memories of summers spent with the latter. Whilst my parents were always busy putting food on the table and paying the bills they did their best for us kids. Grandparents however had a lot more time to give us. Summers spent...
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A Busy Week at Kaizen Bonsai
As you might expect with the Big C on the horizon this week has been a busy one at KB. Everyone is doing a good job and pulling their weight so I had a chance to pull my, not inconsiderable, weight out to the workshop and passed the time digging some holes. Anyone who...
A Fun Couple of Days.
If you stop by here from time to time and listen to my dribblings you will be familiar with the fact we are always busy. It has been said that I have the best job in the world, mucking about with bonsai all day and getting paid. ANYONE who runs a business in the UK...
A Brilliant Little Carving Tool
I am forever on the lookout for useful new products to add to our not inconsiderable range. Trouble is there's a lot of old tat out there. I have no interest in selling junk, the juice ain't worth the squeeze. Carving tools are a prime example, there are a lot of...
A Bonsai Master at Work
Brit's, by and large, are an angry bunch. If you live here you will largely understand why. If you don't live here you will know us by reputation. If you were thinking about moving here I would certainly think again. There is a reason why, as soon as we are abroad,...
Warning – Here Be Monsters!
I live out on a limb, nobody knows that better than me. I live exactly eighty nine miles from the nearest motorway. Personally I like that, ninety percent of traffic holdups I become entangled in are on motorways. However the way most folk talk you would think we were...
Heathrow Bonsai Show 2017
4am Sunday saw me up and out the door for our annual autumn trip to Heathrow. Now, I have a rule by which I live my life which involves me not entering the inner circle of the M25 (London ring road/long stay car park). I was 13 the last time I purposely visited my...