Welcome, welcome – come one, come all!

This is the home of The Sheeprug Pages, documenting the things that I get up to or take an interest in these days. You can get an insight on what this means by examining the menu at the top of the page, but essentially it covers local history, photography, music, woodcrafts, gardening and various other aspects of life in rural Suffolk. As a website, it’s more-or-less continually under construction, getting changed and added to when new information, ideas, time and enthusiasm all combine positively. I’m not driving any particular agenda, and there’s no overall strategy – it’s all simply for the fun of it.

One of the things I enjoyed in my former engineering life was writing. I’m not sure I was ever very good at it, but I remain hopeful, in an ‘infinite number of monkeys’ kind of way, that eventually I’ll produce something worthy of your time. It’s been said that everybody has a novel in them. I’m not sure if that’s correct, but this is my Magnum Opus, my best effort to date (that is, unless you include some really tedious technical documents!)

The largest section is devoted to the village of Hasketon, containing lots of local history, village trivia, that sort of thing. I’ve lived there for over 20 years now, and very much like it.  The woodcrafts section is getting bigger these days, containing some details of bowls and other turned stuff for the Sutton Hoo Ships Company, but the photography and music sections are still somewhat light at the moment,

There’s also a less formal Blog page that contains a growing collection of shorter entries covering a range of topics that have piqued my interest over the years. If you want to know more about me and my background, please visit the About section.

So feel free to wander about, and find something you like. Let me know if you do – most pages provide opportunity for providing feedback.

Finally, I must apologize if you found this site whilst searching for woollen products – I’m afraid you won’t find any here. “The Sheeprug” has been my internet persona for over 25 years now, and I’m rather attached to it! (If it’s any help, the site, https://sheeprug.co.uk/ might contain exactly what you want).

Kind regards,

Peter Hughes.