To commemorate my recent trip to Jinyun.

A joke from the Qing dynasty

On the coming of the new season.

Seasonal fruit again

On a recent incident...

Seasonal veggie again: daikon radish

Some literary basis for fantasising about a wok mender.

A legendary man in disguise?

Some useful tricks for a moonless Mid-Autumn Festival.

A seasonal recipe from the 18th century.

To the new season.

A touching poem to an otherwise unknown woodworker.

何人見植初， 老樹梵王居。 山鬼暗栖托， 樵夫難破除。 聲高秋漢逈， 影倒月潭虛。 盡日無僧遶， 清風長有餘。 By whom was it planted at the beginning? The old tree in [this] dwelling of...

To commemorate my first application of tung oil (on a cutting board instead of a carriage though).

Those who truly love the summer heat.

By Yuan Mei 袁枚 (1716-1798) the foodie again.

絕頂天風吹鬢毛， 長天東去望中遙。 沙邊煙浪浮珠牡， 島上人家住翠鰲。 萬里閒情窮海嶽， 百年無事只漁樵。 連翩盡日歸來晚， 看到潮生月色高。   From the peak of the heavens wind blows the hair at [my]...

An ancient enemy in summer...