Workshop Nine, Closing Hour

Scaffolding Down

A Buff Orpington rooster in a chestnut leather stonemason's apron over a cream linen collarless shirt, standing at a heavy oak workbench in a dusty stone carving workshop, one feathered wing resting on a finished carved limestone column capital, chisels and a wooden mallet on the workbench, warm amber light streaming through a tall gothic arched window

He had been told the project would take a lifetime, which turned out to be true — though not, as it happened, his. The scaffolding came down with the same discretion it went up, and if anyone applauded, it was not the stone.

10 June 2026

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