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Feb / March '09 Sorry to have been a little slack on the blogging front, but I'm delighted to tell you it's because I've been too busy in the workshop to get around to it. After a dismal January, work and enquiries have been flooding in of late, including a couple of commissions for high profile clients. Perhaps the nicest job was a pair of french style gates just finished and fitted in central London. I need to get some pictures of them installed, but here's a glimpse of them waiting in the garden! The next major job will be an avenue of rose arches for a local client, which has just been given the go ahead. Meanwhile I'm trying to keep up with quotes..... |
April May June '09 (sorry again!) Once again I've been struggling to get to the p.c. and work on the website..and I've got lots of new photo's I want to upload. Those gates in London, and a nice fire grate made for the same client, the rose arch avenue installed and looking good - all 13 and a bit metres of it, and an unusual door handle in the form of a snake, for another client to fit to his property in Italy. This week I'm hoping to fit a kissing gate in a Wiltshire churchyard, and a handrail at Manor Farm, Hoggeston, where they do a fine farmhouse breakfast, and where now the less agile will find it easier to get up the steps ! Also destined for Hoggeston there's a lantern for the Church Porch..Galvanised and painted and just waiting for the glass to come back from the engravers. I'm currently working on a juliet balcony worthy of Gracelands with a big ole geetar in the middle! As far as future work goes, there's some tricky hinges, some decorative handrail and a chimney damper to do, as well as a quote for some very special railings for a war memorial. . It's a good job I'm busy, as we've had builders and decorators giving the exterior of the house a makeover and one job leads to another...... Even the weekends are packed..last Sunday took a trip down memory lane and lined a chimney, Saturday evening was roped into providing musical accompaniment for the village campfire singalong (?!?!) Yesterday (Sunday) fired up the forge and made some pattern welded damascus. It looks like it's going to be very pretty - not sure yet, but I may make it into a knife to raffle at the Winslow Show. There's wonderful news that the developers who've been threatening to ruin the whole area by dumping a huge new town on our doorstep are not going to appeal against A.V.D.C.'s decision to refuse planning permission. The war may never be decisively won, but it's a major victory. |