I adore everything Philip Pullman has written, even his Sally Lockhart mysteries.

Recently, I was delighted to find that, as well as being a writer/thinker/philospher, he is also a fellow woodworker.

Here he describes the joy of buying wood:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/17/the-ground-is-unstable-but-there-are-pleasures-all-around-goodbye-to-the-joy-of-small-things

You'll need to scroll down a wee way for the Pullman bit.

Greenie