Woodwork, walking & waxing

Yesterday evening I made a start on the repairs to the old pine sideboard. I had removed the damaged back leg, cleaned up the underside and glued in an oak pad to receive the new leg. This morning I got busy in the garage and made up the new leg from some scraps of 22 mm oak boards. It is a fairly simple affair of two pieces of board that are mitred to form an "L" shaped leg and I have strengthened this structure with another piece of oak to hold it all square.

Sketch of dresser leg

The leg is drawn upside down to give a better view of its components and assembly. The only components that can't be seen are the biscuit joints and liberal quantities of glue holding it all together. I then left the leg drying on the workbench and headed back in to the house.

There was a rumour of some part-time work at local Pub and TP needed to provide them with a copy of his CV. 30% decided that we could walk over there with T&M and have lunch as it was a beautiful day so, shortly before twelve o'clock, we headed across the village and out towards, for want of a better alias, The Hand Cart & Fortified Structure. The route was one we had never wandered before and it took us across arable fields and past an ancient hay meadow that belongs to Worcestershire Wildlife Trust. After the best part of an hour we found ourselves sat in the Pub garden perusing a menu...

... the CV was deposited, lunch was eaten and, rested and sated, we headed back towards The Pile. We actually managed to follow the true route of the footpath on our return journey rather than the approximation  of our outward walk.

The rest of the afternoon was taken up by giving the Honda a wash. The great thing about washing the bike was the enforced break I had to take while it dried off in the sun. After an hour with my feet up I pushed her back in to the garage and started to give her a coat of polish.

I had forgotten how long it takes to give a bike a proper clean!