http://www.joshreid.net/index.htmlHot News!enjosh@icsecurity.com.auCopyright 2010 Josh Reid2010-07-05T18:31:21+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:32:04 +1000josh@icsecurity.com.auNone2010-07-05T18:31:21+10:00http://www.joshreid.net/page1/files/cb60ceb3b3587465f499855666ad210f-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.joshreid.net/page1/files/cb60ceb3b3587465f499855666ad210f-1.html#unique-entry-id-1Chimney Capacity

By Josh Reid

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When my wife and I bought our house several years ago it was the kitchen that sold us. It was a quaint 70's style kitchen with multi-coloured cupboard doors and horribly patterned linoleum on the floor.

Not convinced yet? - Nor were we.

Not until we turned around and saw the other side of the room. There it was – what we always wanted, a large brick chimney climbing up through the ceiling with an...]]>josh@icsecurity.com.auThe Brewery2010-07-05T18:31:15+10:00http://www.joshreid.net/page1/files/b2cd95093ad2bd068da0eae9594f98e8-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.joshreid.net/page1/files/b2cd95093ad2bd068da0eae9594f98e8-0.html#unique-entry-id-0Not being raised a very handy man in my childhood, I am conscious of the need to teach my own children the skills I have only acquired later in life. I have a need to pass on my handyman skills to my sons as part of raising them to be real men.
 
I was raised to be a 'nice' boy - quiet, polite, well behaved. But there is something burning within me that knows that quiet and polite have little place in the life of a man. I often tell my sons that I am raising them to be brave, strong men. Becoming men who are not afraid and who know who they are. I want to teach my own children how to make wooden toys, fix things around the house, grow their own food and enjoy being muddy and dirty as they do it. I want my two sons to be comfortable and...]]>