This weekend, Chris, Caleb and I will be running our Trug Making Appreciation Course at the Weald & Downland Museum in Singleton, West Sussex. Our coiurses are always fully booked well in advance and we look forward to working with our eight students over the next couple of day.

A lady from Canada wrote to me over last weekend telling me about a small Trug that whe had purchased second hand and asked about its history. It was a Royal Sussex Garden Trug and had the number “3” on the bottom, which denoted its size. Looking at the photographs that she has just sent…

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing over of our very much respected Queen Elizabeth II. HRH had done much for this country and for many other countries around the world of which she was head of state over the past 70 years. As a Yeoman Member of the Worshipful Company of…