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Here is a mushroom at High cliff in Cornwall not far from Boscastle. If you have seen any interesting mushrooms then send in a picture.

Here is wonderful seat in Mullion Cove in Crnwall that loks like it is made of old wooden boat with oars for the arm rests. It has a wonderful Cornish eccentricity and charm about it.

Here is 4 burr oak eggs around 6cm long. Very satisfying objects to make and a good test for the skew.

Check out this amazing collection of toilet seats that have been turned into beautiful works of art by American toilet seat artist Barney Smith. http://www.unusualmuseums.org/toilet/ I swear you will never look at a toilet seat the same way again.

I believe Focus DIY who have gone into liquidation are selling off all their stuff cheap. I will have a look tomorrow and see if their are any bargains.

Here is some old turned wooden scales at the Ceredigeon Museum at Aberystwith in Wales. You can see some butter prints in the background as well and an old bowl. It is a great museum in an old variety theatre and and there is some amazing wood items including bardic chairs and an old wassail bowl.

Here is 2 Douglas Fir mushrooms made from a bit of branchrood from the forest. It is a much inderrated wood for turning and fine woodworking and has beautiful grain, colour and cuts and shapes well. I have left the bark on to give them a bit of rustic charm. They are about 10cm high. Off for a...

Here is 4 bantam egg cups to get the egg cup challenge started. They are small sized for bantam eggs and made in yew, box, fruitwood and beech.

This is a spalted birch plate made from the end of a board and is about 20cm in diameter and 2.5cm thick. It was sold to an Austrian couple who dropped in the workshop the whilst on holiday in the area. The piece of wood didn't look anything special before I put it on the lathe but revealed some...

This is a clog maker in The Netherlands with with an interesting gouge for hollowing out the clogs and also he has quite an ingenious holding device for the clog.

This is a picture I took from my workshop as the sun was setting and the the sky is quite an amazing colour and is just as I took it without any manipulation.

Here is a fir mushroom made from a bit of branchwood from the local forest. It is about 10cm high and took around 2 minutes to make with a spindle gouge and skew and is quite a skill to knock them out at pace to put them on the market competitively. As you can see it is a very interesting...

Here is a square winged bowl made from reclaimmed oak with tapering thickness and around 12inches long. The picture is a bit out of focus but the curves and lines give it a slight Japanese feel. Just about to have my soup now. Having a freestyle session this morning blitzing through the boxes...

Here we have another spalted egg to start the week. It is about 7cm long.

Here is 3 small rustic bowls made from Rhododendron branchwood using only a spindle gouge. Rhodo is a superb turning wood and the shavings come off in ribbons making it excellent for demonstrating. The wood is fairly bland but is ideal for colouring or doing pyrography on.

This is a spalted birch egg I made. It is about 3 inches long and is a good test for the spindle and skew.

This is a burr oak bowl taken with a 35mm film camera and scanned through. It is about 14inches in diameter, was made on a Graduate bowl lathe and the burr came come from a local sawmill where they used to cut the burrs off and you could get them quite cheaply at one time. It is quite reflective...

Here is 10 Christmas trees made from sycamore using a skew, spindle and parting tool, approx 7cm high, coloured with food dye and take around 2 minutes each to make. They are quite fun things to make and demonstrate on the Chrismas markets and as you can see the wood takes the colour very well.

What is it about seaguls these days that they need to put these signs up to warn people. This was in Looe, Cornwall. Is it the proliferation of fast food outlets or maybe a lot of their natural food sources have been taken away so they need to aggressively target tourists for their fish and...

Here is my first offering to the woodturning section of the UK workshop forum. Just a basket of eggs approx 6cm long, in various woods such as yew, box, laburnum, honey locust, holly, oak, birch and so on. I enjoy making eggs and they are good practice for the spindle and skew. If you have a...