Chimney Capacity

Chimney Capacity

By Josh Reid

www.joshreid.net

When my wife and I bought our house several years ago it was the kitchen that sold us. It was a quaint 70's style kitchen with multi-coloured cupboard doors and horribly patterned linoleum on the floor.

Not convinced yet? - Nor were we.

Not until we turned around and saw the other side of the room. There it was – what we always wanted, a large brick chimney climbing up through the ceiling with an...
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Red Tool-box

Not being raised a very handy man in my childhood, I am conscious of the need to teach my own children the skills I have only acquired later in life. I have a need to pass on my handyman skills to my sons as part of raising them to be real men.
 
I was raised to be a 'nice' boy - quiet, polite, well behaved. But there is something burning within me that knows that quiet and polite have little place in the life of a man. I often tell my sons that I am raising them to be brave, strong men. Becoming men who are not afraid and who know who they are. I want to teach my own children how to make wooden toys, fix things around the house, grow their own food and enjoy being muddy and dirty as they do it. I want my two sons to be comfortable and...
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