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I'm always a little apprehensive at this time of year. As a self employed artist I'm never sure if there will be enough work coming in over the next twelve months. So far it's looking promising.

Couldn't live without a chainsaw

This will be our fourth visit and each time we have taken lots of prizes but never won the big money prize. It's actually not lots of money, it's just the only prize that has money attached. We are a good team and it's about time we won.

It's creative. 

Trying to make really good quality fit a small budget.

I love living by the sea. I like some of the ways that Seaham is changing. I hate it when people park their cars without trying to leave space for me to get past in our back street.

A mortgage statement and a touch screen mobile phone with all the latest bells and whistles.

A chainsaw.

An artist or a nuclear physicist.

I am the luckiest man in the world. 

Waiter in a sleazy night club.

I sometimes have ideas for new sculptures that need some working out or I have too many projects on the go and I worry that I can't fit them all in.

Beethoven.

Stubbornness, egotism, trying to do too much.

Stubbornness. Trying to do too much.

Seth, our little boy.

I go to my studio - I spend more time there than anywhere else.

To learn to manage my time and my accounts properly. To be debt free. To travel and not feel guilty about being away from home. To play the guitar properly. To have a house with a studio attached. To sell more sculptures. To spend more time with my family.

Taking Seth to casualty with his first asthma attack.

Walking in the woods near Duns Castle with Angela and Seth.

0% on credit card transactions for ever.

I would try to get everyone to spend more time with others rather than communicating through a PC.