Building relationship Stories

Back in the flat, I glued the two pieces of cut leather together with rubberised glue, which is flexible when set. It took two days to allow the aromatic smell of the glue to disperse. At the haberdashery shop, I asked them to stitch around the edges to prevent the two halves from splitting apart. One of them asked, “What’s it for?” “I hope it will help us beat gold leaf onto experiments, which will go in satellites or ro...