Regular readers of Stately Moans will be aware that Lovely Warden is very good at making things, just as long as they happen to be things that are very big and made of wood.
I have written of the enormous table, the giant bird hide, the mighty mallet and more.
Talking to Lovely Warden in my office one day I happened to ask him how big his current woodworking project would be when completed.
"About a metre," he replied, stretching his arms wide, like Jesus on the cross, to demonstrate.
"That's not a metre," said McColleague, shrewdly assessing the extensive span of his outstretched arms.
"Yeah, it is," he affirmed. "This is the way I was taught to measure a metre."
"When?"
"When I was a boy. I was taught that the width of your arms - like this - is a metre."
"When you were a boy."
"Yes."
There was a pause while we all digested the significance of this and understanding dawned as to why Lovely Warden's creations are all so massive.
