A blast from the past.

Two-fold "socially distanced" visit.
1.Jerra was attacking the contents of his shed.
2. His #2 daughter & bloke were down from Edinburgh for a long awaited visit.  She reckons she should now qualify as Scottish, having lived up there, now, just longer than she's lived "at home"
:¬( ) 
I may have mentioned I was born into and grew, nearly, up in a pre-electricity household.  Granted Mam used a Gas iron, but I suspect "Mother" may have used this; fuelled by "Meths".
Aside - (Our label for Gran. I kinda suspect Mam, growing up under Victorian parents, addressed them as "Mother and Father" and we just followed her lead.)

Then surfaced Dad's "Naff Axe".  
Dad was, probably, one of the last "time served" Wheelwrights in the county, working under his Dad.
Not that long ago I watched an American Wheelwright using all mod cons to make a wheel, probably indistinguishable from Dad's wheels - except - he used a lathe to turn the "Knave" (Dad called it the "Naff").  Search for part names and you'll get "Hub".  Another Dadism - The "Felloe" they called it the "Felley"; I remember him telling us that wheels were made with "Two spokes to the Felley" etc.
Why this preamble? (Or is it just an amble?)
Imagine trimming a knave/hub using this monster.  
Extra -1. I know I'm getting puny as the years roll by but it's always been difficult to hold that Axe horizontally due to its weight.  It's the only tool Dad would "strangle" (Hold by the neck).

Extra - 2. "And finally Cyril." © Esther Rantzen.
Our Meccano set.  It was quite amusing watching one of the "young uns" trying to force open the locks as a result of being unfamiliar with antique technology until Jerra demonstrated its simplicity.

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