My wife's away at the moment, visiting relatives and friends in her native country. One of the list of '...orders...' she left behind was for me to tidy-up my workshop.
She's been away for over three weeks but is due back very soon, and so I thought it best to tackle this particular item on the list....
As part of the clear out, I identified several non-electrical bits and pieces which could safely be stored in one of the unheated sheds in the garden. So I hauled these items down the garden path, but when I was stashing them in the smaller shed I came across the old die-cast aluminium lantern that used to hang beside our front door.
It was in a very sorry state, but despite the wife's objections I'd hung on to it with a view to one day perhaps cleaning it up and putting it back into service - when we bought the house, it was one of the first items to be ripped out during the refurbishment works.
So I dug it out and had a closer look at it. With the nights closing in and the wife due to return to our local airport on an evening flight, I thought the illuminated lantern might be a pleasant 'welcome home' symbol after I'd picked her up from the airport, and therefore now would be the right time for a restoration.
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| After a little initial scraping and wire brushing.... |
