17th September 2016
It’s not often that I get totally absorbed in my work, but I did today.
I was working on the rocking chair stripping the old paint finish off. I wanted to chip off the paint on the horizontal bars that the wooden rods fitted into, this is the most difficult part of the job.
I was using a small scraper and a narrow chisel to do this work. Luckily the paint was very thick, so it chipped off in small pieces. I set my sight on completing the top surface on all three bars.
And that is where my problem started.
I was merrily scraping away unaware of what the time was, under normal circumstances that wouldn’t matter, but today I was meeting Lloyd at the Curragh at 3.00pm
In a panic I gave him a call, explained what happened, he told me my beer was waiting.
I was half an hour late, the beer tasted good, if not a bit warm. I should have complained, but Lloyd would not have seen the joke.
