’ ‘You have a good eye. Not many girls would recognize a knife like that.’ ‘I grew up playing with them. He made my first one for me when I w...as six.’ Suddenly a knife appeared in his hand. ‘Like this?’ He said and handed it to her. She examined it carefully. She kissed it. ‘Yes, that is one of Daddy’s. Here is his mark.’ He grinned at her, ‘I don’t imagine he taught you how to use it did he?’ She laughed, his heart jumped. ‘He sure did.’ ‘Here girl. Look over in front of the window. That is. Good effort, Lisa; you scored nineteen. I will let you off this once.”Frau looked directly at me, “Mike, you have demonstrated to me why you failed your mock exams. Unless you put some work in you will not succeed in passing your GCSEs in less than nine weeks.” She picked up the tawse. “Come out here!”I began to step out from my desk and saw both Marie and Lisa exchange looks.“Take off your clothes, Mike.”I knew it was pointless arguing so I began to take off my clothes, starting with my shoes.. All that changed when a delivery truck driver ran me over, claiming to have not seen me. The company settled out of court and would pay for all my recovery expenses. So financially I was still good, but now I would never ride again, I would never live independently again. My free living style of life was replaced with medications, therapy, and learning how to operate my life with very limited physical independence.So yesterday was my fiftieth birthday and the care takers had setup a diner at a. ”She met my eyes and nodded. Her expression was serious; I hoped the lesson had sunk in. We sipped our drinks.“I’m going to start by giving you some simple exercises using off-cuts. You’ll have the opportunity to use edged tools – tenon saw, chisel and mallet – and learn how to cut cleanly and precisely. I’m not going to let you use machine tools, like the morticer until I know you can do it the old-fashioned way ... the hard way. Okay?” I emptied my cup.She nodded again. “That sounds to be.