Roses are red like Rudolph's nose. The cops arrested Santa, and interfered with his clothes...

ChatGPT down as well, apparently. So not all bad news, then...

Cloudflare has gone down...taking tons of websites offline. Inc Twitter. I can't even order a piece of wood I needed! Called them instead, and they were "too buy trying to sort the website out!" Try all you want, mate, *you* can't fix it! You might as well take some money...

Corrected a bad decision...

The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Samir Zitouni. 🙏

Added the eye and legs…but the rest was a complete accident. Will keep

Almost all I've done for the past two weeks is make acorn boxes, acorn pendants, and variations on the theme. I've made a lot. An awful lot. Everybody went mad for acorn boxes...

You have to admire the parents that encouraged this...good work

Club and Penguin can no longer be described as chocolate biscuits as they contain more palm oil and shea oil than cocoa. Coming soon: "Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cake-style products" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Just blocked a new follower who believes that recognising Palestine as a state, is a sign of mental illness. Fucking whomper

Carved Australian Goldfield Burr bowl, on Ebony ball feet and leg 9 1/2" at widest dia, 7 1/4" at narrowest dia, 4" high (Burr from @tonynicol3.bsky.social . Thank you :)

A little story. To brighten (or not) your day... FL (French Lady) was in today. FL turns only lighthouses (don't ask...I've stopped asking). So, she was turning a lighthouse. "What do you think, Andy?" <yawns> Yeah, it's great. As good as any of the 150 you've already made. She plonks it...

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Shells - ancient and modern - from the beach at Redcar. The modern oyster was considerably more battered than the 200 million year old ones. Watercolour painting. #fossils #shells #art #nature 🐡

I've been playing with wild apples. Apple pie with Za’atar spices…will make again.

Invented a thing...

Found a walnut tree, hidden in a copse. Need a sturdy sack to re-visit it.

Now SOLD Thank you :)

Just 5 spaces left on my small museums for mental health w'shop this Sat,on how collecting & arranging small objects improves mental health. Incl BRILLIANT research showing that playing TETRIS makes us more resilient to stress 👇Earlybird price expires tmrw👇 workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

I found a weird, self-ebonised acorn...so...obviously...I had to make a copy in 5,000 yr old Bog Oak, and English Oak...2"

4" (large) Acorn box in English Oak

Both now SOLD Thank you :)

3 3/4" now SOLD Thank you

3 3/4" & 3" Acorn boxes in English Oak...

Now SOLD Thank you :)

3” acorn box in English Oak

Autumn…

Now SOLD

Acorn box in English Oak… *acorn for scale 😂

Having turned the last Acorn box, and packed it for posting, I thought I'd make another...but...I like a challenge, so...

Now SOLD

If only the flag shaggers had bought British-made flags, instead of, patriotically, Chinese...then the flags might not all be sloughing like the brain cells of the hard-of-thinking

I picked up some acorns the other day. One was particularly well formed. So...

Just two days of rain and wind, and all the temu flags are shredding, and breaking their bonds. Soon be just more plastic waste to break pollute fields and gardens. I'm guessing that the hard-of-thinking "patriots" won't be doing a community litter pick...

Brambles in reclaimed Oak frame 245mm by 200mm

Right leaning...

Australian Goldfield Burr bowl. 450mm wide, 250mm deep, 55mm high, bowl 240mm diameter... 2 videos of the making (where it looked quite different at one point) at the TikTok place

Convicted. Now doing time... Joyous.

Decorative lidded chalice* Australian Goldfield Burr, and African Paduak 205mm T by 85mm D (at widest) *could be sealed to make it usable as a drinking vessel

I wanted a nice piece of wood for a thing...So, after looking through one of the wood racks, I decided on this piece of Cocobolo. It’s been sitting patiently waiting to be used since 1996 (!!!), so it should have its day, right? So, I need the replacement cost today, to work out its value…and…

Australian Goldfield Burr box, with inset tenon and decorative matching base layer. Infilled fissures with turquoise green mica pigment. 90mm by 90mm

Autumn discount...https://ko-fi.com/andycoates/link/AUTUMN33

I this for a walk today, along with the old Oak block, simply to take a picture in the sunshine... Australian Goldfield Burr hollow pot with large Ebony stopper... 5 3/8" tall, 3 1/2" Dia

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Australian Goldfield Burr. Carved bowl, with three ebony legs, one that pierces the bowl, and is capped with an ebony and paduak "plum". 19" long, 7 1/2" wide, and 4 1/2" high...

A little video (with twinkly music) showing a reduction linoprint building up in 11 layers. The finished print will be in my shop shortly, once it has dried and I have trimmed, signed and dated the edition. Subscribers to my 'Dapple Scrumping' newsletter will get priority access.