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Save your money and do what I was advised by an old boy a few years ago. Find a live bantam hen, take her up on the roof and drop her down your chimney. Just make sure to cover your carpet to catch the soot that comes out on your front room floor.

Can't help with the thing on the left or in the middle but the thing on the right is a 20p piece

Wait. Do you know me?

I once purchased some assorted items from B&Q including some drawer fronts from the bargain bin I was going to use for a project. I think there were eight in total. Loaded my assorted items into my Fiesta van that I had at the time and began to head home. I drove the small roads for maybe...

Or if you want something in a more southern flavour East District have six craftsperson posts...

I like that a lot. We moved house last year and are still renting. I'm adding this to the list of stuff I've seen on here that I am going to shamelessly plagiarise when we finally buy and I get get my workshop back up and running.

I've never (knowingly) seen Parana pine so this is a pretty useless post I guess but my first guess at looking at the pictures would have been cherry.

Valid points. To put your mind at rest I have, in the past and probably will in the future professionally culled grey squirrels. Well, professionally in the sense that I get paid for it. I'm fairly well versed in dealing with them. My parents have a walnut tree in their garden. This year I...

My initial reaction was that it looked like Sycamore.

I absolutely love figs. The wasp don't put me off. When we finally buy a house, right up there on my list of essential things, juuuust after workshop is a fig tree. maybe some Greengage and victoria plums too. Maybe a walnut tree. In five years time I'll be rolling in soft fruit...

Not en route for you at all but if you are in Newcastle, Real Wood Studios are in Jedburgh just over the border. Really helpful guys, amazing selection of quality wood. Ring them before you go. Worth the trip. http://realwoodstudios.com/

Lovely area you are looking. I grew up in Aldeburgh. Have you considered a Barge on the Deben?

Sorry. I was identifying rob 1693's Hawthorn. Which he already knew was hawthorn. Got confused. I'd not be surprised if the actual wood in question was Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) or some other plummy type wood as said above.

That's Hawthorn going by the bark and the leaves I can see in the middle photo. And those thorns I can see coming from the smaller branches.

Where in Suffolk? We are currently looking in Suffolk and it's nuts. People buying houses without a viewing a couple of hours after it's gone on rightmove! Had several offers that we have placed over the asking price beaten by people offering more.

I think from memory the wood dust is called "frass" which is a cool word.

Also, not diluting it enough can scorch plants, so they begin to die back but it doesn't fully kill them and they recover. I've seen that happen with nettle beds.

I think if I were going to soak a wooden bench in oil, it would be one made of a cheaper wood than teak.

Has anyone ever tried? I'll be on Dragon's Den within the year!

Yep. Prunus Spinosa. Brilliant firewood. I turned a bowl out of a blackthorn root ball a while ago and it was lovely.