Norfolk Life
Arts, crafts and musings from Norfolk
How to build a round wood pile (Holzhausen)
Every spring I build a round wood pile to store and dry the logs I have collected over the previous autumn and winter. A pile this size will see us through the winter when we start burning it six months later. It makes a great feature in our garden each summer and...
Walking the North Walsham and Dilham canal
Norfolk has a canal, who knew? My dad and his friend discovered it recently and he invited me to walk a section of it with him this week. The canal is only 8-odd miles in total length and we did a 4-5 mile loop along the best-preserved section of it....
The Pingo Trail
No, this is not a walk dedicated to a 90s cartoon penguin ... the Great Eastern Pingo Trail is an easy 8 mile circular walk through a landscape dotted with Pingos. Pingos are a relic from the last ice age, lumps of ice remained as the glaciers retreated...
How to power carve a plywood egg
I saw a post on Reddit recently by someone who had been experimenting with sculpting blocks of plywood sheets stuck together. The results look pretty neat so I thought I would have a go myself. There's not really too much info on this technique online so this will be...
