One good turn

摘要

Jasper Murphy is possibly the only New Zealander dedicated to reviving the lost art of bodging. It's a glorious day at Waihua, in northern Hawke's Bay, when bodger Jasper Murphy sets up his foot-powered pole lathe under a pohutukawa tree and begins turning chair legs.He's using pin oak from a recently felled 70-year-old tree on the edge of the Haynes family's garden, where Bob and Jill Haynes' daughters Rose, Gretchen and Victoria grew up.