Tom Fort - Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets : Life in the village hardware shop

[@royksk]

Just reading the book and it's an easy-on-the-brain thing to enjoy after watching too many youtube videos. I've always been fascinated by ironmongers and spent some time helping my grandad when he looked after a busy one in Manchester.

[@jpdennis1008]

Remember Tom's highway to the sun on BBC4 as a surprisingly good piece of work on what I thought was just another road, turned out it was an entity in it's own right. He's made me look at things like that in a different way