Douglas Horrell

@cleftcraft.bsky.social

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Gardener on the edge. Lover of natural complexity. Bike life. Making and teaching craft with http://rekindle.org.nz in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, NZ. instagram.com/cleftcraft/

Luna the greyhound learned to ride our cargo bike and here she is sitting in her comfortable bed up front.
Portrait of two greyhounds. One rendered as if flayed in the style of Francis Bacon.
Very large feijoa fruit next to a baked bean can for scale.
Two white fluffy dogs called Fonzie and Graeme sitting in the crate of a stationary cargo bike on a picturesque cycle trail in Ōtautahi Christchurch,New Zealand.
Jeremy riding a 3-wheel cargo bike with his Bernese Mountain Dog Ruby sitting in the box.
Post and rung stool made from elm wood with a woven seat of elm bark. Made by Douglas Horrell in Ōtautahi Christchurch, NZ.
Orange cargo bike carrying another bike outside RAD Bikes workshop in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Luna the fawn-coloured greyhound is chauffered along a cycleway by her person Douglas in a large orange cargo bike with a wooden box.
Diana, AKA Swamp City Basketry, sits in a very large willow basket she made.
Corkscrew shaped stainless steel bikestand with no place to lean a bike against that will not lead to the bike (and perhaps the user) falling over.
Animated GIF of Luna the greyhound stretching on her giant dog bed.
A big pile of beautiful willow baskets made by Diana Duncan and Gemma Stratton sitting in Diana's workshop. (📷 Diana Duncan)
Tiana Malina Te Rongopatahi Mo’iha looks pleased with a car bootload of palm leaves destined to build a Hawaiian hale for her Macmillan Brown artist residency in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Screenshot of the Merlin bird app showing a list of birds identified in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Red bicycle leaning against a wall, with heart rimu 4x2s strapped to it.
Very good elderly dog named Jess relaxing in her comfy bed in the front of a cargo bike.
Orange cargo bike stacked with two crates of cargo.
20 year-old NZ lancewood tree, Pseudopanax crassifolius, in front of a house and grey sky, showing its adult tree form and foliage.
Quote from Ed Zitron. "Much like the Business Idiot themselves, ChatGPT doesn't need to do anything specific. It just needs to make the right sounds at the right times to impress people that barely care what it does other than make them feel futuristic."
Screenshot of the Accessibility settings in Bluesky mobile App with "Require alt text before posting" toggled on.
Interior corridor inside Canterbury Provincial Council Building showing pointed Gothic arches and flagstone floor.
Huge rimu tree surrounded by ferns growing in Orokonui Eco Sanctuary near Ōtepoti Dunedin.
A log of Robinia cleft into four pieces.
Rough carved wooden cup or kuksa on a chopping block.
The hollow form in a block of wood of a carved cup or kuksa, with a swan neck gouge and pencil sitting beside it.
Home grown black beans in a wooden bowl.
Brunsvigia josephinae flower stem with large pink flowers.
A photo of an old Barton drawknife held in one hand.
A pile of curling thin ribbons of alder and walnut wood shavings made by a drawknife, illuminated by dappled sunlight.
Perennial plants and grasses sitting in black plastic eurocrates on coffee sacks in a home nursery. A sun shower is taking place.
Image of car congested highway with the caption "let's have a moment of silence for all those who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride stationary bicycles".
Screenshot of a message conversation with Scoundrel bar about their sign being vandalised.
Closeup of Nyctemera annulata - makokōrori or NZ magpie moth caterpillars feeding on a daisy relative plant with yellow flowers growing out of cracks in concrete.
Copper spouting being cut up, cleaned and turned into hand punched tree tags.
Tasman predating citrus whitefly on a citrus leaf.
Two large tī kōuka (Cordyline australis) with perennial plantings in the foreground
View down hillside to the sea at Fisherman's Bay Garden
Three carved wooden hairpins with chip carved designs on a green cloth background.
Handmade carbon steel knife made by Richard van Dijk lying on a chopping board.
Luna the 11 year old greyhound basks by a sunny window
Five straight small logs from a Banksia trunk.
Members of Ōtautahi spoon club taking some wood from a recently felled walnut tree.
A tree being transported by cargo bike, in parts.
Cripplingly low bike rack at Lincoln New World Supermarket, Canterbury, NZ
Image of cutting propagation from RHS Propagating Plants
Luna the greyhound discovers that the afternoon sun hits our bed and luxuriates in it.
E-cargo bike with a regular bike is its cargo box.
Charlie the giant greyhound sitting in a chair that's too small.
A 24 year old fridge magnet listing essential items you will need to survive Y2K, including a bucket.
Grading basket willow rods by size during harvest.
Fine shavings attached like curls to the neck of a wooden spoon as it's carved.
Wooden eating spoons in various stages of completion with spoon carving knives.
Luna the greyhound catches some afternoon rays.
Ruby - Salt Peter
Totara bark. Image Krzysztof Golik. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Podocarpus_totara_01.jpg
View of a c1968 garden in a state of senescence with stone steps in the foreground.
Sand and clay plaster being applied to the outside of woodfired pizza oven.
Inspecting cracks inside the dome of wood fired pizza oven.
Closeup of pizza oven insulation.
Pizza oven being constructed showing insulation.