It was a little more like....
We'd never worked out how to attach wheels to things, and as for asking for help...?
That only leads to grown ups asking questions that we might not want to answer...
Or worse, offering to help... ha ha.
I learnt to be very self reliant, in some regards, early on...
Grown ups can be very useful, but they also have that annoying habit of interfering, or worse, saying No... ha ha.
In my later years, when we met as adults, Mother and Son, (not so much Mother and child, anymore), I told her about some of the things I'd got up to, when I was younger.
(I told her of some of my adventures when I was older, too, but that's another story... actually, probably running to a six volume set, ha ha).
She knew about some of my youthful adventures, but still managed to look genuinely surprised at some of the others...
Which was terribly flattering, as I'm fairly sure that she knew a lot more than she let on, after all, she's a Mother...ha ha.
This was about the most ambitious wheeled vehicle that I ever made...
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By some miracle of the universe, I managed to actually take a real picture with the far too complex camera late this afternoon and the cosmos smiled and there it was, it worked! ... 
Our Waratah tree is now our early 'Christmas' tree, who would have imagined it would do this after the cranky way it behaved since it was accidently planted some time ago! .... accidently, because someone left it on the doorstep as a gift and we have never found out who it was, so we planted it anyway, just in case ... 
Meanwhile, next month, we're going to be having a sing-a-long, cook-a-long, eat-a-long, sew-a-long, quilt-a-long and finally a pre-Christmas-a-long all on the same day ... so the preparations begin this weekend and once again, there are not enough hours in the day, but at least all the work/serious stuff is over until next year. .... 
Big group hug to all here .... 
That waratah's incredible, Tas... and well done on getting the photo, ha ha.
I recall back in the good old days cameras were simple things that anyone could use... ha ha.
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