I noticed an old photo the other day, and it dawned on me that this might have been the first "DIY" thing I made - a planting trough to sit on a windowsill.
Heyyy - nice watch, kid!
So you must still be a youngster! I'd always imagined you, with your most respected position in this community, your great fund of sagacious advice, and your immaculate productions, as being, errr, more mature!
John
Someone has to set he standard.
Thanks, I think... :-)
(I would guess I was 6 or 7 in that photo)
Nice photo. It took me back to me having one of these junior woodworking sets, which seems to have changed hardly at all in the last fifty years:
J^n
The metadata does not seem entirely accurate:
Camera manufacturer motorola Camera model moto g(6) plus
:)
Yeah, that was the problem with 127 roll film, unable to take an exif record :-)
I suppose one could edit the exif data to read something like:
Kodak Brownie 127 Model 3 Exposure 1/40 sec F Number f/14 ISO 100 Lens Focal Length 50mm
The camera was almost certainly one the same as this:
In my case you can probably blame my Godfather... ISTR he bought me something similar[1] at around that age. I remember he lived in this fascinating old place in Wickford, with a huge (to me at the time anyway) garden with lots of outbuildings, and "secret" paths and places to explore. My awe and wonder however was reserved for his workshop[2] stuffed with timber, materials and some hand tools. I would always nag him to let me go out there and build something every time we were visiting.
[1] Don't recall mine having a saw - but hammer, some chisels, pliers, and the g cramp etc. [2] It sowed a seed, that one day I would have my own... realised probably 20 odd years later:
At that time I was 29!
Time machine, anyone?
Now I've got arthritis in the knees, I'm awaiting a hernia operation and I fall asleep while watching the afternoon movie.
MM
My father had a hammer and a saw, that's all. No drill. When I made a go kart from pram wheels I found at a dump, he "drilled" the hole in the front "axle" (piece of wood) with a red-hot poker that he stuck in the kitchen range for 20 minutes. But with that hammer and saw dad built several large poultry houses on our smallholding. We kept laying hens for years. He didn't need a screwdriver, just lots of large nails.
MM
Define mature....
Too hard for me.
OTOH it's all too easy to tell when one's corked.
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