For a golf-mad dad a great Father’s Day gift with some gentle charm and a bit of humour is a hand-knitted golf club cover from ChunkiChilli. The covers are hand-knitted in organic cotton, with fleece lining on the shaft, and designed to fit either standard woods or 460cc drivers. Father’s day, June 21st, is approaching […]
So, is it true that one of the original Clanger puppets went missing for 50 years? It is indeed, and it makes quite a story. A young chap stole it from an exhibition in the 1970s and, a lifetime later, confessed to the theft just before he died. Josie, whose mother, Joan Firmin, made the […]
You may have noticed that we have started posting on the blog again after an extraordinary long hiatus, which we are doing because the pointy-headed chaps who look after the internet have told us that we need to be posting up ‘incremental nuggets to be scraped up by smartifical in-telly gents’, or something like that. […]
ChunkiChilli make an officially licenced set of Wallace & Gromit Christmas Stockings. ChunkiChilli currently produce the stockings in three character styles, Gromit, Feathers McGraw and Shaun the Sheep, and are in the process of developing others. The stockings are hand-knitted in organic cotton and unusually have arms, legs, floppy ears and 3-D noses. You have […]
ChunkiChilli’s hand-knitted Feathers McGraw Hat is officially licensed by Aardman and branded Wallace and Gromit. You can find the hat here. It is knitted in the shape of a four-fingered glove (like the one worn by Feathers McGraw in both of his film outings), and it is based on a design created by Nick Park’s […]
This is taken from an instagram post of ours: These Joe Wicks workouts don’t half give our children some enjoyment, not because they actually do the exercises, but because the get to watch their old Dad try to motivate them by example. Every lumbering lunge and staggering star jump of mine elicits a searing guffaw […]
Lucy Elephant was hard at work in the Tea Leaf Resort, making sure that everything was ready for the Christmas arrival of a convention of rabbits from the Mainland Carrot Corporation. The rabbits were flying to Organic Island on the lunchtime flying boat. The flight was almost due. As she threw open the last of […]
You’ve got to love the new finger puppets. Just Etsyed some here.