A There are several senses of graft in the language, such as the gardening, medical and the bribery and corruption one from the US that you mention, all from different sources. Since that first gift I have replaced every basic leather item I carry–wallet, passport cover, laptop cover, iPhone cover, hiking boots—with a product from Hard Graft.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We learn how scientific world-firsts and fortunate medical discoveries led her family to the brink of salvation and how self-sabotage nearly forced everything to fall apart.This comes from the Old Norse groftr, digging, and is also linked with the verb grave, an ancient Germanic one also meaning to dig (from which we get the noun grave in the body-burial sense). After less than a year of very light use (probably used that Macbook pouch less than a dozen times all in all), the ZIP fell totally apart. Wool on the inside of the shoulder strap so you don’t end up with a band of sweat across your shoulder or, worse yet, dye bleeding onto your shirt. The scientific detail is highly credible but written in a way that's easy to understand and a breeze to read, and is well balanced by the human aspect of the stories which are always running alongside the science. This faulty blood, in the form of Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) would prove to be life-threatening.

There are a few reasons to spend the money on a luxury brand like this and one of them is the unique styling.

It appears in the United States at the end of the century, where — for example — the Fresno Weekly Republican uses it on 10 August 1899: “Two years of strict military discipline, hard ‘graft’ and sobriety will make a man out of him, if anything will. Most commonly, graft turned up in the phrase spade’s graft for one spit’s depth, as in this from the Transactions of the Society of Arts in 1792: “We dug one spade’s graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand. It was established by Neil Stuart over 30 years ago and is now being run by the next generation of Team Stuart - sons Fraser, Sam and Lewis. I had to learn how to handle this leather—like you would a great saddle or a baseball glove—using leather treatments to keep it supple and help it heal from the occasional bumps and scrapes.