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Thank You!
Life leads us down a winding path on occasion. I was never the most social of animals, us Norfolk folk are renowned for our reticence. However I did not really expect I would end up quite so isolated behind this screen. Our business has been very demanding and entirely isolated me from the world at large. I am one of many folk that work from home. Not in the modern fashionable sense of the phrase, here at KB we really WORK. It's long hours, hard, heavy and responsible work that's thankfully relentless. It might well appear a simple task from the outside but trust me it's NOT! The down side...
Hand in Pocket Time
I don't get out much but from what little I do see, in some parts I understand times are hard. I do know we are all being f****d by our immoral, corrupt and feckless leaders. In fact let me correct that, they are no leaders at all are they? So, it's good to know there are some folk who are doing their bit to help out those most in need. One aspect of modern society that leads me down a dark path of depression is the widespread proliferation of misandry (look it up) in the media in all it's shades. I know the ladies got a rough deal in the past from some quarters. I also know a lot of other...
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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...
Thieving Bastards
This year we have been the target of an unusually high number of attempts to nick our stuff by thieving bastards using stolen cards and the like. Sadly one of these low life scum bags got away with it. In August we sold a juniper to Mr Darren Deschauer of Clyde Vale,...
Hats off to Uncle Albert
They always told me when you get older time seems to pass much faster. I have no idea what constitutes ‘older’ but time now seems to pass me by like money slipping through a politicians hands. Bonsai is very good at marking time for us or, should I say bonsai is very...
Time To Get To Work
In the UK summer is such a precious commodity we have to squeeze every drop of goodness out of it. By and large we don't work trees over summer except for a few maples and the constant pruning back of fast growing broad leaf varieties. Making the most of that tiny...
Where’s me tweed ?
Anyone who knows me will know that next to bonsai and my family my great passion in life is motorcycles. I have been very blessed to be able to assemble a nice little collection over the last few years. I thought it was high time I put one to good use and so this...