Hello beautiful Telephone Table

Here at the Men’s Shed we are happy to meet so many people from around our community, and even happier when they bring in a treasured item for us to repair, restore or resurrect. Sue brought in a little ‘op shop’ find from years ago for us to remove layers of good old Mission Brown and reveal its simple beauty underneath.

She called it ‘the Telephone Table’ because hidden at the bottom of the drawer were lots of names and phone numbers, scrawled in pencil, biro or fountain pen, covering decades of this little table’s life.

And isn’t this just like you and me? Life covers us in muck, overshadows us with boredom or sidelines us.

Stay with me here. Because all of us have things written in our hearts, minds, and spirits that stay with us, just like those years of names, numbers and squiggles. All that experience and love, joy and tears, the rose’s sweet aroma and its cruel thorn – all buried under Mission Brown.

So, we scraped and stripped, refastened and gently sanded, rubbed new oil into old timber—and the little table glowed with life again.

And that’s what happens at the Men’s Shed, where blokes sometimes lay themselves bare to each other and come out beaming, ready for whatever new splotch may come.

Your Men’s Shed. Come on in and get rid of that Mission Brown.

We meet at 199A Parkes Street Helensburgh; 9am-3pm Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Shed Tours and Afternoon Tea are on the first Monday each month, from 2.30-4.30pm.

Visit helensburghmensshed.org.au, 199A Parkes St Helensburgh Call Michael Croft 0413 401 522; Ron Balderston 0410 564 752; Paul Blanksby 0403 701 788