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    KEEPING THOSE SHED SKILLS ALIVE

    Jun 14, 2019 2 minutes
    By Ray Cleaver
    Photographs: Rob Tucker

    As people live longer and more baby boomers hit retirement age, the number of people choosing to live in retirement or rest homes and take it easy is also rising.

    This older generation has a massive collection of diverse skills, acquired from the days when people fixed things themselves, when men got together to build a house, add a room, make hay on farms,

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