Old junk, new skills

I’m not a fan of daytime telly, but I’ve discovered something wonderful. It’s a programme called ‘The Salvager’ and it must be the cheapest programme in the history of television. A guy who looks like Amos from Emmerdale Farm goes and buys junk from scrap yards, then takes it back to his shed, where he turns it into decent-looking furniture which he sells for a fair profit. It’s BRILLIANT. The guy is hairy, talented and enthusiastic to the point of insanity. It’s like watching your woodwork teacher from school on ‘Scrapheap Challenge’ It’s inspired me to think about building a kitchen table from stuff we’d normally throw out as recycling. I’ve got some toilet roll tubes, some cat food tins and a broken plate. All I need now is a lathe, a drill and thirty years experience as a craftsman, and I’m all set!

RC 13-4-11