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Mr Big's Trolley

Not 'trolley-ed' - before you mis-read that.  I said 'trolley'!

As you may have gathered from previous posts, one of the things I love about Mr Big is his ability to turn his hand to just about anything - and to build just about anything too.

I think he gets this from his Granddad who was famed for his 'bodge-its' where if something broke, he'd mend it in his own very unique way.  To be fair, he came from the generation when you used to fix things instead of throwing them away like we do today - but then again, they were worth fixing!

Lest we get into some debate about our throw-away society, I shall move back to Mr Big's trolley.

Essentially, we needed to get stuff from where we would have to park our car, down to our beach hut, and seeing as we didn't have anything to hand that would carry these items, Mr Big built one.

I felt this was ingenious as it saved us both time and money, and meant we could head off to the beach hut straight away with all our stuff.

As you will see, Mr Big did have to utilise anything he could lay his hands on at short notice for this job, including the very masculine wheels which I think topped it off nicely.

Yep.  Looking macho! 'Me, Man, Make things for family!  Grr!''



The bare structure - not bad for some wood, bit of hose-pipe, shelving supports and , of course...

...the finishing touch!


WM xx

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