OK as I lack a certain femininity it seems I can't run the Race For Life with my bestest friend Suzy Sharpe - Painter & Printmaker, so I have plumped for the Sport Relief Mile instead. I really dislike asking people for money but it is a good cause so if you can spare anything please copy and paste the following page address into your address bar as the clever linky thing below seems to often get blocked!!!! www.mysportrelief.com/paulhoskin (and if you are really looking for some good Karma you could visit Suzy via my friends links below and up her sponsership too!!)
I used to use the following as a way to look at life.... ...Optomists crack up on failure. Pessamists are delighted by success!....... However, possibly for the first time, I am looking towards the future and daring to anticipate a wealth of opportunities for pleasure, success and enjoyment.... ....
I have a metalworking business, making stuff from old copper tanks and steel and also gates and railings etc.(See pics) .... This was set up in 2000 following the closure of South Crofty Tin Mine. I had been in the Blacksmith's Shop there for the final 18mths that it was working, and after that worked for two guys in Hayle who also decided to shut down. I decided, with the encouragement of my first customer Linda Frear to take a chance and set up on my own. At that point Abstract Arcs came into being. .... ....
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I have two children, both girls that I love to bits. I will hopefully get to spend more time with them as I am, at last, starting to sort my life out....... Having met a fantastic lady through a Gallery I am involved in, life is looking up....... I am finally clearing my workshop out, setting it up with a proper spray room, drying area and stores etc, something that I had planned to do when I moved many years ago. .... Orders are coming in for the copper stuff and gates and I have some exciting things in the pipeline.......
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.... I believe that chocolate and music are two of the best healers known to man
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I like to do things with my hands (go on then I set myself up for a cheap joke there!) but I'm frustrated by wood (when you cut too much off you can't weld it back on!)..... I enjoy reading but find concentration a problem so takes me ages to get through a book (worsened by my short term memory which was trashed in a road accident over twelve years ago). Although on the bright side I get great value for money from a second hand book as it takes so long to read it!.... I get great pleasure from music and find enjoyment in almost all types, in one way or another, depending on my mood. .... I have started to make more time to develop interests away from my workshop. I want to continue to get back into live music, cycling, walking, drawing, learn to do something with the bass and guitars I have, other than random twanging and snipets of stuff learnt by ear, learn a bit more about the internals of my motorbike. I have riden on my friends horse several times now and look forward to some more of that. I have aquired a second hand pottery kiln which needs testing but when I got involved with a couple of pit firings I really enjoyed the flexibility and reworkability of the clay. I have started to dip into a little cookery and have made a few meals including one for 8 peolple (with a little help). It seems I can manage to get all elements of a meal together on the table at the same time despite my self doubt..
