Wrap It In A Bit Of Cheese Like You're Tricking The Dog by Thorne David

Wrap It In A Bit Of Cheese Like You're Tricking The Dog by Thorne David

Author:Thorne, David [Thorne, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 27bslash6
Published: 2016-12-03T00:00:00+00:00


I waited for a moment to see if Cathy would leap up again, then made my way to the podium.

“Okay, firstly, my condolences to Simon’s family. For his loss and that poem. I Googled ‘how long do fireflies live’ on my phone while Cathy bobbed and flickered back and forth from the podium and apparently it’s two months if anyone was wondering.”

Cathy glared at me; I heard Mike chuckle.

“Secondly, Simon enjoyed woodwork, bowl turning to be specific, not pottery. He and I spent many late nights in his shed fulfilling the hundreds of orders he received for his bowls. I wasn’t allowed to use the lathe but I became quite good at shellacking. The trick is to rub it into the grain with your fingertips even though it would be a lot easier to spray it on. His attention to detail, even the smallest of details, was infuriating at times, but it what was made Simon Simon. It was why he was so good at whatever task he undertook, be it a two-hundred page annual report with Venn Diagrams or turning a simple wooden bowl. He cared. I once asked him why he bothered doing a fourth coat of shellack on the bottom of bowls when it would never be seen and he replied, ‘If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.’ Which was a bit annoying as I’d quoted that years earlier to him regarding items super-glued to his desk and he’d just stolen it. I shellacked the bottom of bowls a fourth time while we drank Amstel Light and argued about design and music and pizza toppings. He was happy when he was working in his shed. Happier than he had ever been working as a graphic designer at our agency. In a way, he had Cathy here to thank for that, if she hadn’t slept with a white water rafting instructor while on holiday with her sister, it’s unlikely he would have quit.”



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