For some time now, I’ve wanted to place a flatbed trailer next to the restaurant, where kids could hammer away on a hut using scrap materials from our workshop. I think it’s a typical Brabant phenomenon to use a flatbed trailer to parade around town after winning a match or to create floats for the carnival parade. The only problem is that the only way to make sure it ends up being a hut is to continuously help out. To resolve this problem, I thought we could put together a frame using old boards to serve as a supporting structure and guideline, so that the kids could build the hut without too much assistance. The result will be a little brother or sister of the scrap steel shed we made in the past.
If this works, we can make more and more of these huts, sell them, and donate the profits to a children’s charity. Of course, we first need to see if we can manage to build the first hut at the Idea Table during this year’s Parade…
Booth
We also needed a booth for the Parade. I was asked to come up with something. But, at a time when, after making the biggest investment of our lives, we are creating a world with a wobbly balance between income and expenditures, it’s no easy task to build a good-looking structure just like that. For a while, we had been at a loss as to what to do with two huge water tanks that were too nice to throw away, but too large to use as functional decoration. So, I thought: why don’t we put a door and a couple of windows in them, put a roof on top, and voila! Of course, it didn’t turn out as planned, but the guys managed to turn it into a nice little work of art, a permanent ‘house of cards’.
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