This weekend we're at the Leicester District Woodcraft Folk annual may camp. Tonight we're sitting round the camp fire listening to stories from Siberia.

Taken last June, Greg at his best. Clearly meant for better things than maths, English and R.E.

A couple of days before the end of our holiday we went to the Quiberon peninsula, where there just happened to be a farming and agricultural show. Amongst the cows and horses on display were a couple of quite amazing exhibits.

This wooden tractor, along with some full-size wooden motorbikes and even an all-wood hand plough, were all made by a chap who also showed off his collection of hand planes from round the world. The tractor was just so lifelike that we had to have a bit of a discussion about whether you could build an internal combustion engine with only wooden parts. We decided not,