Sparks will fly - How to hack your home

My sister in law is 71 and she was an engineer. She designed showers after being made redundant from Plessey's.

I'm not bald, have never worn a hard hat (at work), and haven't used a slide rule since I left school. Remember these? I bought one with my first weeks pay. I've still got it complete with box, receipt (£9.95), and hand book, and it still works.

We never had any good looking female engineers at our place. Come to think of it, there weren't many female engineers of any other variety either.

Being for kids, the Xmas lectures are a bit slow for adults, and when you're an electronics engineer, this one's especially so.

So impressed by this year's presenter! Only sixth woman to present the lectures and she's also 38 weeks pregnant. So very inspiring!

You are so wise soutra , you seem to know everything, about everything. That is marvellous !

Highbrow!!

High forehead

And the bald head . . . . ?

I haven't used a slide rule for 30 years (but I do know where mine is) and I have never worn a hard hat at work.

Not all engineers are blokes with slide rules in their pockets and bald heads under their hard hats.

But so many of them are, Elegran