GweithdyDU

Old bugger, Taid to 3 wonderful lads. I Don't use Social media of any kind, on the grounds that the world has enough pictures of people's cafe meals. Have spent a life living on very little but ever-so-much as well and overall feel quite lucky to have made it this far. Have always been hands-on as well as 'bookish' and the two together have allowed me to mess-up so, many projects but in a way that was always at least fixable. Big proponent of Have a bash, at least you'll know how not to do it. Have another go and it'll be pretty rubbish, BUT it might at least work!. Keep that up, and by the time you've done loads, you'll be able to either become brilliant or at least show somebody ese the basics. This approach has served me well with things like mechanical-engineering (did that professionally in the end), Metal-fabrication, (ditto), building (rarely ditto), Forestry(ditto), slaughtering my own meat-animals (from small to blooming huge), farming (more desperate small-holding really!) and so on. The one thing it has not worked on for me though is woodwork. I do site-joinery type stuff for myself, using a belt-n-brace approach, it certainly exceeds Building Control regs (but then we get weekly 60-70 mph winds and gusts of 100+), but if it needs to look nice, I'm scuppered. As well as being Autistic, I'm beginning to consider that I may be Dyspraxic, as I seem to make perfect cuts, angles etc, but 90-degrees out. I also do this when plumbing but am a wizard solderer so I just 'cut-turn-n-solder'. Wood is less forgiving! However, neurological challenges aside, I usually have successful projects that 'come true' in the end.