Category: e.phemera
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Rest Of The Summer Wine
At the risk of showing my knickers, here’s something I made last year called Rest Of The Summer Wine. So, here’s the background. As you may or may not know, I spent most of last summer watching Last Of The Summer Wine from start to finish. It strikes me that this is a body of…
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Adam Builds A Box
I don’t often talk about my making on here, from wooden bowls, to book binding, and scrolling intricate shapes in wood. Mostly because I am a half-arsed hobbyist, and partly because I don’t trust my skills. But one of the nicer things about lockdown is having access to my tools and workshop, and I feel…
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Calendar Countdown
When Richard Whiteley opened the first episode of Countdown on Channel 4, way back in 1982, he said: As the countdown to a brand new channel ends, a brand new Countdown begins. You may know that the show borrows its format from a French show called Des Chiffres Et Des Lettres (Numbers & Letters), which looks a…
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Attacks Of Opinion
Here are a few snippets from an interview with Terry Jones, made for The English Programme, in which he talks about writing a weekly newspaper column. It’s out of print now, but the collection of some of those columns, Attacks Of Opinion was published in 1988.
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How To Make Sausages
No one wants to know how the sausage is made. Balls. Thames do. He always did like a fat sausage.
