Board Work

Yesterday and today have been devoted to working on my serving boards and walking Charlie the Hound. Yesterday I was greatly inspired by The Master Craftsman who set a much higher standard of finish for my boards, especially the end grain. So this morning I set to and planed the ends. Brilliant - much crisper than sanding and takes them away from the 'drift wood' look.

Here are the first to be finished. I will have 7 boards in all.

First thing this morning, the dawn was bright so I made an early start and took Charlie for a 3.5 mile walk over the North Brooks. I picked a lovely lot of fresh field mushrooms in the 'Cow Field' which I will have for my lunch

.............and my favorite Blackberry bush was offering forth a few of it's huge and succulent berries. I rather think that the bush is an escaped cultivated variety from the Rectory Garden, the other side of the wall.