{"id":1777,"date":"2009-02-16T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/02\/16\/school-work\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T20:04:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:04:06","slug":"school-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"School work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst in one of my attics, trying to sort out why the shower drain isn&#8217;t working. <\/p>\n<p>I came across the ironing board that I made at school when I was 13 or 14. Since it was combined woodwork\/metalwork&nbsp; I had to make the bracket as well!&nbsp; Interestingly my mum used it until she died, giving it well over 30 years of use!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/iron-board.jpg\" height=\"370\" width=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the bracket that I so struggled with nearly 50 years ago :-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/iphoto-1.jpg\" height=\"175\" width=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In those days we also had to make things like ashtrays and matchbox holders:-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/ashtray.jpg\" height=\"294\" width=\"488\" \/><br \/>alas, no longer polished to perfection \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance<\/em> however was the bookcase I made. Still in use to this day in my bedroom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bookcase.jpg\" height=\"646\" width=\"489\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An other memory of metalwork was in our final school leavers exam, we had to make a toilet roll holder.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I was total clueless so the invigilator helped me and in fact just about made it! &#8211; Result a distinction in metalwork and a life lesson in always asking for help and getting other folks to do what you are not good at \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by ScribeFire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst in one of my attics, trying to sort out why the shower drain isn&#8217;t working. I came across the ironing board that I made at school when I was 13 or 14. Since it was combined woodwork\/metalwork&nbsp; I had to make the bracket as well!&nbsp; Interestingly my mum used it until she died, giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}