We
delivered the table. It turns out my
autograph on it doesn’t matter – it’s underneath – like a maker’s mark.
The top is
going to be covered with 4 big tiles. All components scavenged. F embarrasses
me sometimes.
(F note: I embarrass myself a lot of times, but
inherited a family trait for DIY build, repair, modify, and putting the ideas
bouncing around in the bonce into solid shape needs materials…..and there they
are just lying beside the bins. The
boiler suit helps – it sort of looks workman-like. Half a dozen of these tiles was a great score for a Heath Robinson outdoor table.)
She’s also been building cat-motels to replace the scruffy collection of cardboard boxes Efy assembles downstairs to house her charity cases in the winter time.
I’ve never
met F’s brother (he lives in New Zealand) but they get together on the phone
and talk about making things. F told him to put wheels on his roof ladder and
he showed her how to rebuild the clutch in a 4WD van. It’s not your usual brother/sister chat is
it?
F is a dinkum kiwi by the sounds of it. She can fix anything with a bit of wire and a length of twine. We once had two tables with with left over tiles on the top of them. And very colourful they were . There were big tiles, small tiles in all sorts of colours, tiles that had been sitting in corners for years. I loved the tiled tables but they were out in the sun and rain and gradually the tiles fell off and eventually the tables were sanded and painted. I hope your table has lots of tlc and lasts many years. Kronia polla in other words
ReplyDeleteYour tables sound really nice. That idea of mixing loads of memories really appeals - like a proper patchwork quilt. Our table is just practical - no memories. It's only made out of some posh plywood, a piece off a bed, and old pallet wood. It won't last years and years, but that will just be an opportunity to make or scavenge something different.
DeleteReading about Linda's table reminded me of the one we made out of a door and then tiled it very roughly with bits left over from a kitchen reno. Four old house bricks under each end and the kids had their very own bbq table - mind you they had to sit on the ground/grass to use it 😎 Ours disintergrated after a couple of years as well. Hope yours fares better and has lots of good tucker placed on it
ReplyDeleteIt's the bbq and good tucker that appeals most. Tigger loves a good barbeque - if you mess about in his archive you'll find him sitting underneath ours commenting that it looks like a UFO. He seemed to be unafraid of fire and would get singed occasionally at the burn-ups of garden waste etc.
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