Mrs Fletty works at a school for kids with disabilities. It is in a beeeautiful and historic rural location and it is a place that cycles regularly and unpredictably between frustration, sadness and joy. Unfortunately in these days of political correctness and OH&S, kids with reduced reflexes and reactions don’t coexist well with old trees that regularly drop branches?
About a year ago, a large and very old red forest oak had to be cut down due mostly to the damage caused by the disturbance of its roots by new building work. It was NOT a popular decision and to reduce the anxst, I ‘volunteered’ to make a piece of furniture from the timber in memory of this once mighty tree.
Well, I should have followed the removal, slabbing and storage of the timber more diligently as it has been quite a challenge to find it in the tree removalists yard? Nonetheless, it has now been found and was delivered this morning....
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I overcame the shock and disappointment by replacing them with unbridled optimism just as the school staff do on a daily basis?
I dragged one piece into the shed....
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struggled it through the thicknesser, sanded 240, 400 and 800 and..,,.
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To say I was amazed is probably an understatement but, now that I’ve glimpsed the possibilities, I’d better start designing this memorial to a tree?