In Competition No. 3151 you were invited to imagine famous authors reflecting on their struggles with DIY.
Highlights in a terrific entry included John Osborne on grouting, A.E. Housman on the torture of cutting your own hair and several accounts of W.B. Yeats’s botched attempts at sorting out the plumbing (‘things fall apart’).
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