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Opposite to where we used to moor our boat on the Norfolk broads was another boat owned by Jean & Malcolm. Malcolm was/is a university lecturer at Canterbury, highly intelligent, but totally useless at D.I.Y. I must admit I felt smug when he called me over to fix a gas tap on his boat that was leaking. Like all things you do for other people it didn't go smoothly, there I was down in the bilges following a gas pipe and I looked up and Malcolm is sat in the stern drinking a G&T watching the sunset. That was the first time I felt that being practical is not all that it's cracked up to be.
Since then I've gone and worked in a hospital repairing & maintaining Linear accelerators (The machines that radiate and treat cancer). Again when a machine went defective a radiographer would call and say 'The linacc's broke' and their responsibility was finished and it was then down to me.
The question is, who would you rather be in terms of practical skills, Malcolm or Tech100/Billthedrill/Jaws any of the practical people on the forum.
As I crawled out from under the MoHo this morning I know who I want to be.
'I want to be Malcolm'
Since then I've gone and worked in a hospital repairing & maintaining Linear accelerators (The machines that radiate and treat cancer). Again when a machine went defective a radiographer would call and say 'The linacc's broke' and their responsibility was finished and it was then down to me.
The question is, who would you rather be in terms of practical skills, Malcolm or Tech100/Billthedrill/Jaws any of the practical people on the forum.
As I crawled out from under the MoHo this morning I know who I want to be.
'I want to be Malcolm'
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