by Kathleen Murphy | 29 May, 2014 | Calendar Blogs, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Trying to keep to a format for our Working Lives interviews has been a bit of a struggle. Visiting places of work often means that my mind veers off immediately to ask about a tool or technique, forgetting to stick to the questions I had planned; however I made an...
by Kathleen Murphy | 28 Apr, 2014 | Calendar Blogs, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Sitting at a generous ash dining table she made in her sun-filled home near Ledbury, I asked Gudrun Leitz to tell me how she became a green woodworker. “I always knew that I had worker’s hands, that I would do something with these” she said, offering them,...
by Phoebe Clive | 31 Mar, 2014 | Calendar Blogs, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
On being asked why he became a hairdresser, Mervyn Parnell is liable to give one of two answers, either: “I was good at art, I could draw and I knew I was creative. I could have gone to art college but it was full of ‘hippies’ not people like me, so I thought...
by Phoebe Clive | 1 Mar, 2014 | Calendar Blogs, Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Sam Prentice’s workshop is crammed with furniture. It’s always this way when I visit. Sam is self conscious about it, ‘You can’t photograph here, it’s too messy’ he protests. Over the years I’ve come to understand that any upholsterer that isn’t busy isn’t very good....
by Kathleen Murphy | 20 Jan, 2014 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
I knew that I really should have been Christmas shopping. I’ve walked past The Old House Museum for the last twenty years and somehow felt now was the time to re-acquaint myself. Thirty minutes away from the hustle of the High Town was altogether restoring. The...
