- Reaction score
- 6,650
...Let me tell you a story,that me mum has told a thousand times,that indicated the direction i would follow....Picture a 5 year old Peg,invited with his siblings to a posh neighbours house,late sixties. Fancy buggers had a garden pond with a fountain in the middle. Mother took eye off the ball,and young Peg removes and dismantles said pump. One massive bollooking later i'm dragged home by my ear and sent to bed. At teatime,the husband is at the door and i'm presented for apologies,am asked how it was dismantled and are offered to show...march back to pond,where i re-assemble pump and stand with proud,gushing parent,observing re-activated fountain. BANG! .....no,that's not the pump,that's the crashing sound of a career in engineering beginning from then on. A whole lot occurred to help and hinder that path,but from it i will never stray. I cringe a bit,when i remember things like,making jacobs, ladder spark machines out of industrial boiler ignitor units (age 12),or rewiring family friends kitchens (age 15),but consider myself VERY lucky to put bread on my families table doing something i love. ....just don't ask me to give what i do a "name" :bow: