My birdhouses just aren’t as spicy as Willy's

Willy, an exceptional birdhouse builder from Tilbury Ont., makes one spicy meatball, and I want to know what country or heritage influences his work.


["A riot of colour": photo courtesy of cousin Doug Harrison]


["Recycled lumber, courtesy of my brother-in-law's workshop": GAH]

My own, made in Canada, are mainly influenced by the availability of used or recycled lumber and a can of double boiled linseed oil.




You want colour? My latest batch, finished yesterday, will really warm up in colour after I apply linseed oil.

But they won’t be a riot of colour like Willy’s. He’s on his own.

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Next to Willy, I look like I was deprived of crayons as a kid.

Have you see any as colourful as his?

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