A Yandle of a weekend.

It's 10.30pm and I have just returned from Yandles Autumn Show in Martock Somerset. I was there at the request of the publisher of my book, Step by Step Guitar Making. They had invited me to sign copies of the revised edition of my book, and to do demonstrations of some of the aspects of guitar making.

The bulk of demonstrating consisted of bending Mandolin and Bouzouki ribs, now I've got no excuse for not getting them finished. Those funny things on the end of my arms are gloves, the bending iron is 140 degrees and even though it said HOT HOT on the top, someone had to touch to find out, no it wasn't me.

Tony from GMC was a great help, he also took all the photos, that's him in the photo making sure my guitars were in tune.

The folk at Yandles are really great, I was made to feel really welcome and I look forward to going back to do more demonstrating in the Spring, if invited.

A couple of weeks ago I got back into bread making. Marc and Andrea had paid us a visit while they were in the UK and after talking with Marc, a master bread maker, I was encouraged to try again. Below is the latest loaf. I am going to use the same recepie for the next few loafs and get my confidence before I experiment with variations, bon apitite.