I remember making these with you, and indeed before that with Geordie. So when Ev's homework assignment was to build a game of some sorts out of recycled and throwaway stuff, out came the old faithful (though one no longer gets wooden clothes-pegs here - so the flippers had to be built too.
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| Phone pics as proof of the origins of the materials - that cabinet door there, perfect. |
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| Showing how it was cut to size. We went with the approach of using manual tools - but eventually I lost patience with the sawing effort (which was more like chewing up the board) - so the jigsaw had to come out, and Ev got his first taste of why power-tools' scariness is well worth managing. |
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| I think this was my grandfather's hand bradawl (which is threaded so that it actually can drill holes through wood). Ev hard at work putting the hole in place for one of the paddle pins. |
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| Putting in the pins for the elastics - enthusiastic hammerer. Love the cat keeping an eye on proceedings, paws crossed in Holly style. |
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| Some of the pins of course needed a bit of straightening - no thumbs were whacked though. |
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| Looking good and game on! Holly utterly keen to participate now, that ball rolling back and forth is just irresistible. |
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| This is a late addition to this post - found one, smiling - you a week over 13 years ago, on the laundry step at G&G's house in Pretoria. |
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