My Dorset Life: "Most of my family ask 'why are you doing carpet fitting, why don't you do something easy?' "

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Harriet Thew graduated from Bournemouth University with a degree in Applied Art more than a decade ago. The 34 year told BBC Radio Solent reporter Laurence Herdman why she is enjoying her training to become a carpet fitter so much, and why she may finally have found her true vocation after a couple of jobs in metalwork failed to work out.