Having had so much work done over the last 25 years, the whole thing looked like a jigsaw puzzle of disparate parts, so it’s lovely to finally see it looking like a finished building!
13th June 2025
Oof, I’ve only just realised that it’s Friday the 13th, should I be concerned?
I’d like to say that today has been all about work, but that would not be entirely true. In fact, given the limited amount of actual work that I’ve completed, it would be entirely untrue, but some days are like that, aren’t they?
Perhaps the most important part of the day was the handing over of my commission build to my brother and sister in law, for them to take it down to Devon for the wedding this weekend. Feeling a little like I was handing over a child, I was certainly nervous about the model leaving my hands and not being there to check it, post trip. I’m sure it will be fine (it was certainly well-packed and designed is such a way that I don’t think anything will move in transit) but even so, placing it in the hands of others, no matter how careful I know that’s will be, was a little traumatic. As for the model itself, it is not planned to be opened until Sunday, so I still have a day or so before I find out if they like it or not! Fingers crossed that they do! Once seen by my client, I will post images of it on here…
In other news, a major job outside the house was completed today: the rendering of the entire back wall of our bungalow. Having had so much work done over the last 25 years, the whole thing looked like a jigsaw puzzle of disparate parts, so it’s lovely to finally see it looking like a finished building! We still have some clean-up and details to deal with, but it is certainly looking far nicer now with its smooth render, happily in place.
As if the rendering wasn’t enough, we’ve also bitten the bullet and had the cars valeted. Not something we have ever done before, we decided after Liz retired that her little Fiat 500, a car that she has used as a daily hack for all manner of work-related tasks, was in need of some TLC. The inside and outside needed to be deep-cleaned so we got a local company, SUDS, in to take a look at Liz’s motor and then if he had the time, mine as well. Working on them all day, they now look as good as new and though the outsides are pleasingly shiny, it’s the insides with their ‘new car’ smell that really excites the senses! How long they will stay this way is anyone’s guess, but I’m happy to see them this way, even if it’s only for the next hour or so!
With Saturday looking like a day of rain and thunder storms (of course it is, it’s carnival day after all…) I plan on doing very little, reading a book and relaxing seeming like a perfect antidote to the long days of this week. A little food and drink might also come in handy…As indeed, might an afternoon nap. It’s all looking like being a very busy day…
See you tomorrow.
SPENCER POLLARD'S KIT BOX 
The handing over of a commission to me was at time like giving away your first born to complete strangers. To me it was sweet sorrow every time. I’d still have room to add to my personal collection but when you go full boat with a completely plumbed aircraft or car, hood pins, actual needles niacrome wire twisted to resemble the cable for the pins, a reversed tachometer because the original car was that way, the creation of a pilots name under the cockpit by reducing artwork to make the decal, the project has become personal thru literal and figuratively blood sweat and yes tears. But then sometimes it’s a hobby that PAYS, and in more ways than one.
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