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Today I'm carrying on looking for a literary agent to represent me for my young adult speculative fiction. Long after human civ collapsed, crows have evolved to speak and are undergoing their own industrial revolution when they discover an asteroid heading towards earth. My 10 year old read it for the first time yesterday and loved it. That's made it all worth it already even if it doesn't get published.

Tonight is a meeting of a local group growing hemp locally, processing and spinning by hand to make an item of clothing locally and sustainably between us all.

Just spent the weekend at a wing chin gathering with some incredible people. They showed me so much I need at least 2 weeks to think about it all.

Apart from that I’m starting college to study therapy and counselling soon so I'm trying to read up to be a bit prepared.

FFS, can humans not just keep creating plastic crap that'll ruin the planet. Make your own wooden spoon and you have a beautiful object created with your own hands.

Woah. Do you have any pictures or videos? I'd love to find out more.

Awesome! It's much easier to get into than people think. It's well worth learning how to make decent tongs, it's one of my favourite things to make, especially if you learn to punch the holes and rivet by hand.

I'm learning how to use a power hammer in work. It can save a lot of time but I love hand forging.

I haven't done much experimentation with handles. I've been rescuing bits from my firewood for handles so far :-) I also like curving the tang round to make a handle, which people call a "blacksmith knife".

Sorry, I've got a long way to go before they're sellable! I'm just setting up a forge at a friend's farm to do more forging at weekends. There are a few people who want to learn and I've got a list of techniques from Forged In Fire that I want to try out.

I tried being self employed for 3 years but didn't make enough money to live on. Now I'm full time employed. I don't forge that much, lots more time doing cutting, welding, grinding. I love it.

From the description: "Two dummies are impaled on poles. You have slap the hips and smack the bum in time to the music. Its probably the worlds first mannequin based guitar hero game and possibly the last (are you watching Japan). Do say: "how novel, funny and interesting". "

Hmmm, interesting. Not sure if it would be much use for balloons but if you could make vacuum sections for walls then you could make super insulated walls.

Have more money coming in than going out. Escape from the city back to the country.