Saturday Workshop

I’ve been taking the easy option and reblogging Munster Bonsai Clubs posts about the weekend but I do have a few photos of my own that help capture the great day we had. I’ve been back to what has been a hectic few days in work and am still trying to recover from the serious travelling and work that the guys down there had us doing 😉 Anyway, here’s a few of my shots.

Back Home…

… After a great weekend in Cork with the Munster club lads. Didn’t take too many pics as I was rather busy but I will share what I have during the week. In the meantime I’ll just share this one.

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Low Winter Sun

A few snaps from my walk on Sunday. A great day for a walk.

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Detail on an old Railway Bridge

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Hooded crow that was singing Black Betty Bam aLam 🙂

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New Toy

After playing with one of these at Burrs I just added one to the tool kit. Great for cleaning deadwood and on the lower setting, algae off bark.

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Seijyuten 2014 Gallery

As usual these amazing photos come from the Nekotoban Blog. Make you you follow this Japanese blog with loads of exhibition photos from the more obscure shows.

Happy New Year

Wishing all those who follow this blog a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Looking forward to an exciting year in bonsai.

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 380,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 16 days for that many people to see it.

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Happy Christmas

Where did this year go?

I find myself at home today, finished work for a week and tempted to open a bottle of something tasty. Apologies for the lack of posts lately, I had a near fatal experience with ‘Man Flu’ all last week but I’m glad to get it out of the way for Christmas.

Thank you to all those that follow my blog, or even just pop in now and again from a wee look. I appreciate you comments and feedback but most of all, your friendship, even if it’s from a far.

I’ll leave you with this lovely photo of one of Ken To’s sculptures, just click on the image to visit his site.

I hope you all have a great Christmas.

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Burrs X in 2015

Kingdom of Mourne

Had the pleasure of working down in the Kingdom of Mourne last week. Some snow about on the peaks and some great scenery.

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And also this old deciduous tree along the roadside near Castlewellan.

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