Malc2098 wrote:We've 'ad a meetin' of the committee and a motion 'as been passed for Mr Pinch to write a book about large breasted fairies.
I'll 'av 'arf...
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Malc2098 wrote:We've 'ad a meetin' of the committee and a motion 'as been passed for Mr Pinch to write a book about large breasted fairies.
RogerS wrote:Malc2098 wrote:We've 'ad a meetin' of the committee and a motion 'as been passed for Mr Pinch to write a book about large breasted fairies.
And we already know the title
selectortone wrote:Pinch wrote:I remember cutting twin tenons for mid & bottom rails of doors using a rip saw; cleaning up the haunches using a homemade 'old woman's tooth' from an old piece of teak bannister; :
Lovely memories!
When I did my guitar building course at the Totnes School of Guitarmaking the onus was on hand-tools and tradional luthiery methods. I used a "witches tooth" router plane for the bottom of small channels (for soundhole binding for example). The blade was improvised from hexagonal steel rod (an allen key I think!).
selectortone wrote:My first experience of woodworking was in the first year of grammar school. My dad was the classic all-thumbs when it came to any kind of DIY. We didn't have a tool in the house. He was an RAF officer and if anything went wrong in our married quarters he called an oik to come and fix it. So my first experience of woodworking was turning up, all wide-eyed and expectant, at the woodwork shop of grammar school.
On the first day the woodwork teacher, a VERY nasty piece of work who delighted in hitting us with a piece of batten, gave us all a block of deal (remember when we called pine "deal"?) and told us to plane it down to a specified thickness. I'd never even seen a plane before, never mind used one, and of course I make a complete c_ck up of it. The teacher screamed at me that I was completely useless and mentally scarred me for a long time. After that woodwork classes were purgatory.
It was only in my twenties, when the necessities of young married life and a decrepit terrace house forced me to learn some DIY, that I discovered that I wasn't completely useless. Teachers eh.
Pinch wrote:RogerS wrote:Malc2098 wrote:We've 'ad a meetin' of the committee and a motion 'as been passed for Mr Pinch to write a book about large breasted fairies.
And we already know the title
Are you thinking? "Down Mammary Lane."
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RogerS wrote:RogerS wrote:Malc2098 wrote:We've 'ad a meetin' of the committee and a motion 'as been passed for Mr Pinch to write a book about large breasted fairies.
And we already know the title
Big Breaths
Malc2098 wrote:....
He was responsible for the set creation of all the school plays and so, I was there on stage making up the sets with the dolly actress birds from the upper sixth.
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RogerS wrote:Out of curiosity, how many of you are in touch with any old classmates from school? None here from my own cohort and just one from the year above.
Rod wrote:None now but my wife keeps in touch with some of hers.
I changed schools 3 times and travelled long distances to them which discouraged long term friendships somewhat.
I left university in 1967 when we moved down south and I kept in you touch with a few but over time (and distance) gradually stopped communicating.
When I retired I joined a Retired Engineers Society and met up with an university colleague, unknowingly we lived about 15 miles from each other all this time.
Rod
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