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Black Friday My Arse!
Black Friday My Arse! Just in case anyone was tempted to ask me about "Black Friday" deals I thought, for once, I would get ahead of the game. If you know me you know what comes next so let me step aside for a moment. Here is an excerpt from an email I received this very morning from an outstanding UK producer and supplier. "Our position of not jumping on the band wagon with Black Friday deals is not only because we don’t agree with the concept of fuelling consumerism to the detriment of our planet. It is because we don’t need to - we combine high quality, with great value for all our bird...
Littered With Contradiction
I'm on safe ground here when I say Bonsai is Littered With Contradiction. But then perhaps it's not the trees fault and it's not inherent in the programme. Nevertheless there are a lot of variables and those can throw us into confusion at times especially where an individual is not reclining upon the comfortable lounger of experience. After thirty years mucking about with bonsai trees, and, as has often been remarked upon by those who know me, having a capacious gift for memory, at least as far as our beloved little trees are concerned. I am lucky enough to be able on occasions to see the...
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Our New Harley
Underneath this brusque socially inept exterior is a little lad who just wants to live in a decent world. I believe we reap what we sow and doing good wherever possible will always come back to us one way or another. Now I am older I have swapped out my rose tinted...
New Green Dream Fertiliser Products
The trouble with bonsai is that everything takes so long to achieve, but then that's what we love about it. After all there is very little satisfaction in achieving anything that is easy. Without wishing to sound maudlin most everything I have ever done has been...
A Little Clipping Is Not Going To Cut It…
Styling bonsai using wire has, in some quarters, always been a bit controversial. I guess it could be viewed as quite invasive but done properly it can work wonders. It would be nice to just sit and look at our yamadori and clip over it from time to time, given enough...
Peace Amongst The Oaks
When you work from home there isn't much peace to be had, it's pretty much seven days a week. The only time I can find a bit of peace is by being out before dawn which at this time of year is not too hard. After my tribulations of the previous week a little escape for...
A Rough Week & A New Article
It's been a pretty rough week just gone and one I would like to forget pretty quickly. I am no stranger to pain, for example when I was a young teenager we used to have a big rope swing that all the towns kids used to play on. Down by the harbour are some low cliffs...
Saburrtooth® Bonsai Carving Tools
In the light of my previous blog post about price rises I am very happy to say we have good news about our range of carving tools previously branded as Termites. We have invested heavily in this range now known as Saburrtooth® wood carving tools. The range has almost...