Its been much too long since I posted here,  the past year has been not as much fun as one might like, but the health issues are somewhat under control and I’m more or less getting through the day. I’m drawing again, have a project on the go in the...

Christmas gift to myself

Well, no one else would do it, I usually get things like a bar of very nice dark chocolate, maybe a bottle of tawny port or a book or two, but no one dares to get me tools.  I’m picky you see, and the way I see tools may not be the same as the giver, ...

Back again after a long trip away.

Back on the air. A word of warning, don’t expect your email to work properly if you have a local network set up with two computers which use different internet browsers!But that aside, I’m recently back from 6 weeks in the USA,  visited the Port Townsend Wooden...

There isn’t a recent photo of me about on the net, so for those who’ll be attending the several gatherings where I plan to be, this is who you’re looking for, or to avoid as the case may be.  Me, John Welsford at Kathies Cafe in Tauranga, ( very...

Chips new Pilgrim sailing dinghy

Its the interaction with the customers that makes this job so good, lets face it, if I was only doing it for the money I’d be better off mending roads, but the people who have such confidence in my work that they commit years of spare time and a lot of cash...

Winter jobs.

Man overboard.  Another winter job.Winter jobs, I’m not doing much sailing at present, the weather here in New Zealand never gets so bad that its out of the question but I’ve a heap of other things to do plus a multitude of little “improvements” to do on the...