Category Archives: Garden

A Letter to Marks and Spencer

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Tom Green

For those of you reading this in far flung and exotic locations (if you live in North London everywhere else seems exotic) Marks and Spencer is a Major Chain retailer and whilst you may not know the names I suspect … Continue reading →

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George Clooneys Rival ?

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Tom Green

The second instalment of My Ultimate Bacon Sandwich video has now been posted and is available for your viewing pleasure at If you don’t know about this project, its where I have made a video trilogy breaking down a bacon sandwich … Continue reading →

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The Apron made it !!

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Tom Green

Its taken a week but finally the Old Blokes Kitchen Bacon sandwich video shoot is finished. I have had a week of making my favourite things frequently involving a fire so how much better can life become. Over the course … Continue reading →

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A Cover Up

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Tom Green

I have spent the day filming some more of the Old Blokes Kitchen Bacon Sandwich video. If you have missed out this its where I film one of my videos creating the constituent parts of a Bacon Sandwich, to create at last … Continue reading →

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A New World Superfood

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Tom Green

I have been taking advantage of a few days break to film a new video series entitled “The Old Blokes Kitchen”. The concept is in every video I take an everyday food and by breaking it down into components which … Continue reading →

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Cooking With Physics

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Tom Green

We all have  little things that make us happy, for me its getting to make something from scratch, sometimes from wood, sometimes from steel or leather, when I cant do those I am equally at home in the kitchen, so … Continue reading →

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Now watch the video

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Tom Green

Recently I created a Fire Lamp Sculpture which was exhibited at the Canary Wharf Winter Lights festival 2017. As someone who has spent many years supporting and lighting other artists work you always think you can do that, and finally I … Continue reading →

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The First Cuckoo

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Tom Green

Its often said that one of the first signs of spring is hearing a cuckoo, which I suppose depends upon where you live, whereas in our world the first sign of spring is the first day  we light the bread … Continue reading →

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Are Coconuts getting smaller?

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Tom Green

Now there is a school of thought that says everything seems bigger when your young but I am sure I remember coconuts  being bigger. I always enjoy a bit of blacksmithing, but don’t often get a chance. There is something … Continue reading →

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Support an endangered craft

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Tom Green

Another unusual day in my workshop, I wanted to start off by making a joke about how I need to control my apprentice but firstly I don’t have an apprentice and secondly someone would take it out of context and I would … Continue reading →

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