Real life follows fiction again

A chair grown by Full Grown (Photo : Full Grown)

Soon after I wrote The Wormton Lamb, some freakishly large baby sheep were born locally. Now I hear that someone is putting into practice what George Ransomes was doing.

In The Wormton Lamb, George was a bodger,  a hedgerow carpenter. He came from a long line of bodgers, people who made perfectly good chairs and tables out of scraps rejected for more professional furniture.

However, he had an idea. wouldn't it safe a lot of effort if you just grow the trees into the shapes you wanted?

Why can't you grow your own furniture?

The Wormton Lamb is a fantasy but I am delighted to hear that the Full Grown furniture company are actually doing this!

They didn't get the idea from me. They were concerned about the waste created by the traditional timber trade and the result is a piece of organic furniture that has no joins! It has better structural integrity and has less material waste.

Its labour intensive and time consuming but what a beautiful piece of useful art.

The Wormton Lamb is still available from Amazon, as is The Horsepower Whisperer. my writing activities have been quite recently but that is not say that nothing has been happening. The next book continues where The Horsepower Whisperer ended and already constitutes over 50,000 words. Winter is my writing season so there will be more developments very dreckly (good Cornish word).

These chairs are very closely to what I had in mind when I wrote The Wormton Lamb although I never seriously thought anyone would attempt this. I am so glad they did.