Making leather goods by hand

Tanner Bates sells leather bags, journals, belts and accessories – handmade onsite in the workshop.  John Hagger’s successful business expanded into tuition to the point where it became it’s own entity, Leather School.  The two sit happily side by side.  Leather School offers courses, classes and make-your-own-belt kits, with the tagline “Be the Maker”.  The […]

Toasting the Pandit

Ravi Shankar visited Dartington Hall in 1936.  He said “I felt that I was coming close to music and that this music was what I wanted to devote my life to”.  A limited edition batch of New Lion Brewery’s Pandit IPA was bottled especially for the 2016 Sea Change festival.  No doubt music and beer […]

Brewing up a new local economy

A group of beer lovers have revived a brewery that was one of the largest businesses in Totnes, Devon.  Since 2013, the New Lion Brewery has created a demand for its Pandit IPA (No. 17 in Britains hottest 100 beers, 2015) – boosting the local economy – and supports local entrepreneurial businesses with its ‘Community […]

Looking back through the archives

This was a good one.  I don’t remember much about how the product worked – it cleaned swimming pools without the need for chlorine, but I do remember going to the Pool and Spa Show in Las Vegas… lots of bikinis.  My thinking was that the best way to show that the result was sparkly […]