We have lots of different tunes, but due to copyright of their titles we’ll just have to describe them: Its’ all about fighting for a big seat (Spoiler: nearly everyone dies) It’s based at a school where everyone has a wand About a young lady and a bit of a monster Its’ not as miserable as it sounds and only most people die It’s about a boy who’s father is a baddy with breathing problems…
Is there a Birthday Looming?
Have you got a childs Birthday this winter. How about a lovely little wooden loom, make either woolen garments, or wooden bead bracelets(sorry about the bad pun, but we couldn’t resist)
Back to school
Back to that learnin’ lark We have plenty of educational toys. is it time you learned your number pairs upto 10? ..or for you engineers! and then there’s geography
A simple spinning Top, or is it?
We sell these fair-trade, simple spinning tops with the well-balanced price tag of £1.90 ..But, if money is no object and you can find that extra 10p, you can upgrade! The Snake Charmer Spinning top
The manically grinning ticket machine
After an uneventful trip to Ikea, I was reminded of a visit a few years ago that was more eventful and searched the archives for my thoughts on that visit: Having purchased an immoderate quantity of raw pickled fish, I left Ikea, and unusually, remembered to remove the parking ticket from my wallet, before sitting upon it, and thus negating the awkwardness of extricating it at the barrier . With the aforementioned ticket held at…
Thuya wood boxes
We now stock a selection of these beautifully finished, polished wood boxes The wood comes from the roots of the Thuya tree, a shrubby conifer indigenous to southern Morocco. The root has no other uses and would usually be burned when the tree was felled Down To The Wood Round box with spherical lid as shown above (flat base) £12 Square box shown below £9 Egg £5 Mushroom box £12
‘Driftwood’ Ray
I’m Ray, also known as ‘Driftwood’ Ray. My early history is unknown, but I was found washed up on a North Devon beach a number of years ago. As a driftwood log, time and tide hadn’t been kind to me, I was fairly battered and starting to fall apart. I was rescued and carried home, then put somewhere out of the elements, to give me time to dry off. Nothing happened for five or so…
The full skinny on how we make our wands
First, we sort through the coppiced timber looking for potential wands. Anything with honeysuckle curled around it is a possibility Next, we cut them to length on site. I use a saw called a Silky Gomboy (catchy name). It is a Japanese saw and like many Japanese saws it cuts on the pull, not the push. The wand is then clamped in a shave-horse, you push with your feet and it clamps the piece, leaving…