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A Table Top Food Smoker

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

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

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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Could I win the Turner prize?

Over the years I have made more than my fair share of unusual items but one of my favourites is illuminated Makeup Mirrors which I craft for one of the leading professional Makeup Suppliers http://www.backstageshop.co.uk and their subsidiary http://www.fitzrobbie.co.uk  who also sell … Continue reading

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George Clooneys Rival ?

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

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?

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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A New World Superfood

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

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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Handmade Wooden Bed Frame

By way of an experiment for my latest you tube video which can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0DNJpjMLn8h I have decided to publish the cutting list here as a method of supporting the video. Lets see how it works. I have been … Continue reading

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