‘Shed Ministries’ for men
A Kiwi bloke's shed, a place for reflection!
FLAX MILL VISIT
The final Shed Ministries’ trip for the year, on Saturday November 28, took us out to the restored and working Flax Mill near Riverton – the only working flax mill left in New Zealand. Des Templeton told the fascinating story of flax milling in Southland, operated the mill…and two hours went by in a flash. The BBQ was held in Riverton, good company as usual. Keep an eye out for next year’s programme.
We have visited some astonishingly good sheds in and around Invercargill and Southland – where vintage aircraft are rebuilt for overseas customers, where replica GT40s and Jaguar C Types (and others) are made for export, where glass is turned into huge waving toetoes or one storey artworks or serving platters, where paua shell is handcrafted into exquisite jewellery, where classic racing and sports cars from around the world arrive in pieces and are rebuilt into their former glory and returned to their owners, where fire engines and fire fighting equipment spanning 100 years are stored, where one of the world’s biggest private truck and trucking museums is held, the chockablock sheds of the Thornbury Vintage Tractor and Implement Museum near Riverton…and so on.
The talks at the BBQ are bloke-friendly, in that faith is presented through the prism of stories from feeding out in winter on farms, from workshops, from engine rebuilds, from sailing, from caving adventures…
Visit to the Invercargill fire museum.Vintage tractors at Thornbury.