Dark doings.........Pt1
The following is a true story... Some names haven't been changed at all because they are guilty as sin .......Please bare with me as the story is difficult .....(For me that is .....)
Let me transport you all back to One winters afternoon just before Christmas. Imagine the cold air blowing around your bare knees your kilt fluttering slightly in the breeze .It’s snowing heavily and the best place is besides the big log fire you have going in the workshop. You take a break from your work coffee in one hand and you listen to the whirring of the sewing machine (Ah! Profit!) Ooop’s sorry. Kind of spoilt it a bit there….er,,,….
Sorry just couldn’t stop myself . It was a cold winters afternoon …Blah ,Blah,,…….You get the picture by now I’m sure…..Suddenly there came a disconcerting muttering from my mate Sten Rune . He’d managed to sew the lid of a sporran crookedly .Me being the miserly skinflint I am said you’ll have to take it out of your pay my lad…(Boo’s and hisses) ….But what about my Christmas bonus Sten Rune cried…Well lad I says … We’ll have to find a way to make this baby pay…..Or it’s no Christmas pig this year…..
Looking around the workshop what could we do Money was falling out of our fingers…..That’s it we’ll just cover it with some woven thong work (I’d been working on some idea for a belt which as it happens I’m still thinking about)What happened well I made two large holes in the lid and wove some round leather to make a pattern around the lid. I then spent over an hour muttering in the kitchen with my hand sewing technique takning on the challenge. The end result wasn’t that bad at all . We thought…..Then..... The discussions started. ……..
More to follow soon.-
Bookmarks