Our Victorian Clothes Drying Rack: Pt. 1
It is not easy to lift heavy materials. This problem can be solved with the help of a simple machine like a pulley. A pulley comprises a wheel and a fixed axle, with a...
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Kindling
This winter I’ve been splitting poplar logs to keep up a supply of kindling. That’s unusual – not because it’s poplar, but because I’m the one doing the job. For the entire thirty years...
“Doing the dairy” in winter: Pt. 2
dairy n. 1. Room or building for keeping milk and cream and making butter, cheese, etc. (Definition from The Concise Oxford Dictionary.) We don’t have a dairy. In our house, a room for keeping...
“Doing the dairy” in winter: Pt. 1
You won’t be surprised to learn that June says she’s “doing the dairy”. A main difference between doing the dairy in winter compared to the other seasons, is that with milk production down, there...
Pumpkins
The co-worker passed them to the burly, with a hint of surly, removal van driver and he put them inside the A-frame meat rabbit run that he’d wedged between furniture items. Some placatory light-hearted...
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