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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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My Kingdom for a Bacon Sandwich

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Tom Green

Its time to unleash the experiment on the world and publish the first of the Bacon Sandwich videos, a slight detour from my usual video fare, but combines my love of making things with my love of cooking. I am … Continue reading →

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Does my bum look big in this?

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Tom Green

You wont be at all surprised to know that as a Middle Aged Man who spends large portions of his life wearing paint spattered overalls looking at my image in a mirror is not something that’s important too me. I comb my … 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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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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