After 6 months of somewhat sporadic blogging and very little actual woodwork I’ve been nominated for a Versatile Blogger Award (VBA) by Olly Parry-Jones. Thanks Olly! :)
According to the VBA rules I must now nominate 15 bloggers and tell the person that nominated me 7 things about myself, so here goes:
(I don’t follow a massive number of woodwork related blogs, so to make numbers up I’ll also nominate some blogs related to some of my other interests)
- johnsboatworks.co.uk/blog – a recent find, John has reopened an old boat yard on the Thames at Lot’s Ait
- secondwindworkshop.blogspot.co.uk – another recent find, well written with a good mix of text and photos and interesting content
- www.theenglishwoodworker.com – I found this after stumbling across the Wadkin Timewarp thread on UKWorkshop
- www.holteyplanes.com/blog – lovely looking kit and nice photography make this a favourite of mine
- www.theunpluggedwoodshop.com – whilst I admire Tom’s dedication to only using hand tools, I don’t think I’ll be joining him any time soon!
- www.orcamesh.com/Orcamesh/Mutterings_Corner_%28Blog%29/Mutterings_Corner_%28Blog%29.html – occasional glimpses of jigs and projects
- joesaward.wordpress.com – my favourite F1 related blogger by a country mile
- www.jamesallenonf1.com – another F1 blog
- strobist.blogspot.com – the things David can do with digital camera and a couple of speedlights never ceases to amaze me
- thevulcanbomber.blogspot.co.uk – hopefully self explanatory!
- blag.xkcd.com – blog by the author of www.xkcd.com – “a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language”
- krebsonsecurity.com – excellent security blog
- ddos.arbornetworks.com – the Arbor Networks security blog
- isc.sans.edu – the SANS Internet Storm Center diary
- www.the-wombat-speaks.co.uk – a less well known tech blog
And now 7 things about me:
- My grandfather was evacuated from London to Devon during WW1. After being orphaned he stayed in Devon and trained as a carpenter & joiner
- I grew up at the edge of the Somerset Levels, in a tiny Hamlet consisting of about 26 houses and a post box. My primary school only had about 50 children attending when I was there (it’s apparently up nearer 150 nowadays!)
- I was the only person in my year to get an A in GCSE CDT Realisation at secondary school (I think the next closest person got a C)
- I went to University in London and stayed there for about 10 years in total, before getting fed up and moving to Sussex for some fresh air
- I gave up smoking when I moved out of London and haven’t had a cigarette since (about 8 years now)
- I’m married with 2 young daughters
- I’d consider myself a dog person but we currently have 2 rescue cats (at one point we had 4!)
