woodturning blog

I thought I’d give Etsy a try after a long time thinking about it. What’s to lose?

I’m not sure how real this apparent online eagerness to buy “handmade” is. It could just be a ploy of the site builders. If it is, then they’ve done a good job in convincing any number of people. Anyway, I’ve opened a cobwebcrafts shop on Etsy. Curiously I was added as someone’s favourite after about 5 mins! How does that happen? I’ll keep you posted.

During the school holidays it has become the norm for me to take Monday off. And just recently I’ve been glad of the break. (see previous posts!) Last Monday we spent the day touring around the north Norfolk coastal towns. Nice scenery, nice villages, great fresh produce available at the roadside beside peoples’ cottages. But otherwise it was a depressing day. Clay Next The Sea is a lovely seaside town which is spoiled by a mile long street of shops filled, mostly, with imported *rap. You could buy just about anything you wanted in any colour of plastic, and in the main, for just a pound or two! What an attraction!

But Clay does have a superb deli, a famous restraunt, and some lovley old cottages and buildings. And the beach is so far away you can take a scenic small-scale railway to it for a few pounds. Otherwise, I’ll not be rushing back unless it’s out-of-season.

One thing Norfolk does have in trumps, is great wide  and sandy beaches, which are often empty and beautiful at sunset.

Further down the Norfolk coast, nearly home, is Gorleston. Not a great sounding name, I grant you, but a place that time and trends has tried to destroy, but the locals seem to made efforts to save. It’s a lovely old-fashioned sea-side town, and whilst it does have the trappings of a Blackpool underdog in miniature, it has a lot going for it: a great beach, some good buildings, ammusments for children which don’t dominate, and rather quaintly, an old-fashioned Yacht pond, which seems to be well used by an enthusiastic band of land-based marriners.

So that was Monday last…this week I’m sitting here waiting to start some much needed jobs at home. And avoiding them by updating the blog! I should get started so that we can go off to the beach later.