Excellent craftsmanship / myLot

United Kingdom

April 7, 2016 5:02am CST

In these days of automated everything, it is so nice to see an example of real craftsmanship. This is the hedge beside our village playing field, which was laid a month or so ago as it was getting ‘leggy’ and out of control. The people who did it obviously knew their craft and took pride in their work. The result is a joy to behold, so neat and it improves the impermeability of the boundary as well as its value to wildlife which will take advantage of the denser cover within the hedge base once it has started to grow again. Sometimes you just can’t beat traditional craftsmanship. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2016.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381914)

• Rockingham, Australia

7 Apr 16

I love all these old crafts. Thatching is one that intrigues me.

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Fleur

@Fleura (34954)

• United Kingdom

7 Apr 16

Yes it is interesting to watch. I'd never seen a thatcher at work until recently; I grew up in north Wales where all the older roofs are slate and newer ones are tiled. There are a few thatched cottages around here though and many of them were re-thatched in the last couple of years.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381914)

• Rockingham, Australia

8 Apr 16

@Fleura It is great that there are still people doing this work. Hopefully more young ones will be learning too.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

12 Apr 16

That really is an art - I wonder if they do it in other countries.

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Fleur

@Fleura (34954)

• United Kingdom

12 Apr 16

I don't know, several things I thought were practically universal turn out to be British quirks!

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

8 Apr 16

great to see such skills are not yet lost to us

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Elizabeth

@Poppylicious (11134)

• United Kingdom

8 Apr 16

How gorgeous. So many traditional crafting ways have been lost. It would be lovely to get people more involved in them again.

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Fleur

@Fleura (34954)

• United Kingdom

8 Apr 16

I think there has been a bit of a revival because people have realised that you just can't get the same result with a mechanical hedge-flaying attachment.

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Morley Hunt

@Morleyhunt (21741)

• Canada

7 Apr 16

Too many young people consider any job that uses their hands to be menial. Some of those menial jobs are exacting and require a lot of knowledge....maybe not academic knowledge, but still knowledge.

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Fleur

@Fleura (34954)

• United Kingdom

7 Apr 16

That is such a shame. Did you ever read this book? This guy has written all the things I would have said.

The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good: Amazon.co.uk: Matthew Crawf

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