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    WARMING TO OUR WORK

    Aug 06, 2021 4 minutes
    By Murray Grimwood
    Photographs: Murray Grimwood
    Nice when you can share your favourite place with your favourite partner

    Was I ever hoisted with my own petard! Those seats (see The Shed Issue No. 97) set my partner thinking about what they surrounded — which was a brazier made from an old washing-machine drum. It had burned out, and the replacement idea, an old log burner, hadn’t really worked. So, with winter approaching, we went together to Rietveld’s, the second-hand machinery place I’ve written about before in The Shed, looking for something we could turn into a brazier. Nice when you can share your favourite place with your favourite partner.

    The fun begins

    All we were looking for was a simple, robust fire tub, but what

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