Simplicity

Posted on 20 July, 202020 July, 2020 by David Meredith

The guitar practice continues. I have a short list of songs I like to play which improve my fingerpicking fluency. And then there's a shorter list of songs with very specific fingerpicking patterns that I'm learning to play both because...Read More

A New Frontier

Posted on 11 April, 201911 April, 2019 by David Meredith

I was in Flying Tiger the other day and, of course, I emerged with a bag of stuff. Anyway, in the bag were clothes pegs. Little ones. You’ll get an idea of scale below. I’m in Letterkenny at the minute,...Read More

Me Chopper

Posted on 5 April, 20195 April, 2019 by David Meredith

I ordered this last week and it arrived by post a few days ago. It's a carving axe. And it's amazingly, scarily sharp. So I thought I'd give it a road test this afternoon. I had some wood from my...Read More

Back to Wood

Posted on 27 March, 201927 March, 2019 by David Meredith

It’s been a while but it felt good this evening to get back to some woodwork. Still not certain what this will be but I think maybe I’ll make it into a trivet rather than an objet d’art. Anyway, I...Read More

Six Months

Posted on 31 January, 201931 January, 2019 by David Meredith

It's six months to the day since I resolved to do something creative every day. At that time, the resolution was partly an attempt at distraction. So, therapy, in a sense. It was also partly an attempt to reconnect with...Read More

Dig Deep

Posted on 21 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Sometime in 1984, we were in Uxbridge, in north west London. The miners' strike was in full swing and some people were collecting money to support miners' families. The slogan on the collection tins was was Dig Deep for the...Read More

I’ve been blogging

Posted on 10 October, 2018 by David Meredith

Just me in the house this evening so I thought I'd do a blog post on poaching eggs. And that's exactly what I did. Here. Here's the main image. Turned out well.