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Offline Diane CBPFC

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The picnic table
« on: July 14, 2011, 05:26:48 PM »
The picnic table

Steve, our 17-year-old, has been taking woodworking at school. Yesterday he built me a picnic table!  It looks lovely and is solid like a rock. It is made out of spruce and will be stained.

He drew up his own plans for it, so it is perfect for 6’7” 200lb football/basketball players such as himself. I sat on it feeling like a six-year-old; legs straining to reach the floor and elbows lifted to reach the table.

I shall have to ask him to make a “kids” table next – for us regular folk.

I grew up with me Dad who tended to bung things together, it is so impressive to me to see a young man draw up technical plans and make a shopping list and doing a great practical job too.

Signed,
Diane a pretty proud momma  :)
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2011, 05:43:10 PM »
That's such a great story, Diane. I would be very proud too. You know you'll be okay in later life if you require any surgical, or mobility appliances designing.
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2011, 07:32:08 PM »
...or a smart wooden coffin on the cheap.
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Offline Max

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2011, 08:24:46 PM »
"or a smart wooden coffin on the cheap"  three sizes too big...........   ;D
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2011, 02:04:22 AM »
 :)
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2011, 02:06:16 AM »
Good Lord! He's out there right now building another one!

Maybe he's going to invite the whole football team out for a BBQ.  ;D Actually that would be a cool idea eh.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2011, 05:51:40 AM »
It reminds me of a time when I was living in the midlands. A neighbour was doing some carpentry in the back garden, and so I made conversation with him over the fence.

I asked after his wife, knowing she'd been unwell. He said she was still in bed suffering from a bout of the 'flu.

Hearing sounds from his house, I asked, "Is that her coughin'?"

"No", he replied, "It's a rabbit-hutch".
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Offline Bilthehut

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2011, 10:43:23 AM »
It's not the cough that carries you off.
It's the coffin they carry you off in!
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Offline Bilthehut

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2011, 10:44:10 AM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on July 15, 2011, 02:06:16 AM
Good Lord! He's out there right now building another one!

Maybe he's going to invite the whole football team out for a BBQ.  ;D Actually that would be a cool idea eh.

Who's paying for the food and drink at this team BBQ?
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Rob Baker

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2011, 05:22:10 PM »
Quote from: Bilthehut on July 15, 2011, 10:43:23 AM
It's not the cough that carries you off.
It's the coffin they carry you off in!
Leslie Sarony! A great comedy-songwriter and one of my heroes:
www.petefaint.co.uk/jackhylton/thecoughdropshop.mp3

Following the rather morbid theme of the Cough Drop Song, this one is more famous and, I think, one of his better ones...

Leslie Sarony - Ain't It Grand To Be Blooming Well Dead Parts 1 & 2
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #10 on: July 16, 2011, 12:40:17 AM »
Wow, Rob. That was a song by grandfather used to play on his old 78 rpm record player, (with wind-up handle).

When I see the technology today - wi-fi, digital imaging, cloud computing, colour tvs on trains and sides of buildings, it really dawns on me how life has changed and advanced in the (relatively) short time I've been on the planet.
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Joan

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2011, 01:55:04 PM »
My Mum used to say things like that, Peeps, but she was talking about 80 to 90 years of mainly the last century. You're right - it's amazing how far we've come in terms of technological advances in the last 20 years or so. Very short time.

Diane, you should be an extremely proud Mum. Steven planned, started and finished his project. Most of the projects my son started (at home) are lying around still in pieces. They're all electrical things, either being built or supposed to be fixed.  :D
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Offline Bilthehut

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Re: The picnic table
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2011, 11:49:46 PM »
Rob, amazing.  Thank you  :). I did not know where the quote came from, only knew it was old.  How do you manage to find these gems?  Keep it up.
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