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It was a late Friday afternoon when the driver stepped down from his lorry to deliver oak to the workshop storage sheds. I was in the workshop when he came and heard him call to George at the workbench. Do you want some cherry logs, George? George quickly nodded his

I promised you ten projects for free during the pandemic and I am ploughing through them full steam. It's been DIY for me all the way except for the edits, which Natalie did, working from home. She made everything come together except any out-of-focus points which even she

I think it was the most beautiful treasure to me, when George left and went to Loughborough Teacher Training College but handed me a small package. His ambition to teach suddenly had legs and off he went aboard a train and it was my last ever sight of him. There

Grieving is that truly unique period of readjustment where healing takes place between once having someone or something we valued greatly and then not having what was. It's the period where the minds of the aware begin a healing process from the withdrawal of something truly valued but

I looked over my tools today. Measured their worth, their weight, their weight to strength ratios, and then the open-handed handshake they have always given me. They're honest things, the tools I own, transparently so--giving of their best, always, you know! I wondered which politician or economist, media

... I said something along the lines that I had been struggling. And I also said that the first three project attempts felt, well, uninspired. Well, now I want to say that I pressed through, found total interest, and then too the excitement I always feel about my making. This, of