The women reclaiming DIY
I am standing in my damp garden, holding an enamel birdhouse with my left hand, while with my right I’m brandishing a Ryobi combi drill. Shortly, my instructor Moira Tighe promises me, a momentous event will take place – I will drill a hole in a brick wall, into which I will insert a screw from which the bird house will hang.
It sounds pathetic, but for me, utterly cack-handed and with zero knowledge of tools, it’s a seismic
