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SLATE REPORT

The story of the slates.

Many years ago, my folks were offered fairly serious money for some really old tiles on a really old cottage. They turned it down - wanting to preserve some sort of ideal.
I always felt- "sod that" - we could use that money to competently re-roof it with good composite tiles.

So the years past
and came a point where the whole of the roof had to be fixed ~ There were no other alternatives.

So -
It was basically a family affair & we painstakingly stripped the roof. The slates were pretty weak, crumbly & probably not worth anything at all - useful for hobby enthusiasts maybe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My brother in Law ~ Martin.

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Ho Ho.

So, I piled them up in little stacks.

They can be used again, if you construct little lead washers to fit over the frayed holes. In order to build small "hobby" roo(ve)s  
I suppose.

I mean,
When you haven't got video, wi fi, phone or car - What can you do?

For me,
Its an age old problem of when I try to improve on an idea - make it bigger and better - I can lose the initial spirit of it.
When I take a sketch and upgrade it with etching to glass or metal, the actual "nowness" of the process gives it a newer life, more vibrancy.
Scratching onto slate doesn't do too badly

I found
a three inch screw and sheaved it in a duck tape holster.
Day by day, I couldn't live without duck tape.

Putting the slate images onto my P.C. I found that on occasion when I inverted them, they certainly looked more readable and sometimes a lot better (aesthetically).
I felt that they were actually progressing as art, rather than just becoming more readable.
( digitally yours )

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Now the ridge Tiles ~ they are entirely another matter.