Category Archives: hobby

A Table Top Food Smoker

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Tom Green

Regular readers will know that I do like to combine my passion for making things with food, and I am never happier than when I can make something that can be used to cook food, and if there is a … Continue reading →

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Tom Green on Tour

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Tom Green

Its with a sense of excitement tinged with nerves I accepted an invitation to step out into the limelight and appear at the  Enfield Food Festival on August Bank Holiday. The problem is what do I do and the answer its the perfect … Continue reading →

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Building a Hot Tub

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Tom Green

A couple of years ago I decided to build myself a Cedar wood Hot Tub, and as usual make a video of the project. After all how difficult can it be ? To which the answer is it wasn’t, not … 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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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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Flat Pack Furniture the Tom Green way

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Tom Green

My father, alas no longer with us started the tradition of building beds for the family, and when he couldn’t do it any longer I carried on. I don’t quite know how the tradition started, I cant pretend its because … 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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Some habits are hard to break.

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Tom Green

It was a day for going back to my roots, putting the fancy stuff to one side and make some wheels, something I haven’t done for a while, this time a set of four little wheels to replace some rotten … Continue reading →

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Wooden Box wins First Prize

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Tom Green

 As Halloween rapidly approaches I thought I would recount an old story that happened to me a few years ago. My local Authority every year puts on a town show every September and as part of that they have a … Continue reading →

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