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    Nov 30, 2018 5 minutes

    Letter of the MONTH

    Toy story

    Thank you for your interest in the toys, Greg. I have been making them for about eight or 10 years.

    The designs are my own and the inspiration to make them resulted from a friend who commented, “Some kids never get a Xmas present.”

    I had recently had been discharged from hospital and thought of kids in hospital at Xmas time. Making toys would give me something else to do, I had the equipment, and a source of free, untreated pine.

    In the past, I have donated the toys to Middlemore’s Kidz First, Starship, Salvation Army, and Barnardos, but I shall be 87 in a week or so and have decided to supply only Starship and Middlemore; age is only a number but maybe it is time

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