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Oct 17, 2013 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
One does not ‘choose’ a manual career, one does what comes naturally. I have seen this happen.
My brother is a typical example. No one sent him to learn the trade of a motor mechanic but, as an adult, he became what everyone who dealt with him regarded as the top vehicle handler/repairer for miles around. At age 15, he built a toy steam engine and ran it on rails in the yard.
Established as an adult, everyone remembered the day he saved the main attraction of a circus that came to town. The ferris wheel had broken down and no one could fix it. They were packing up to leave, when someone remembered him and thought he might be able to help. He found it a challenge as something he had never before attempted and could not resist. He had a go and, with willing helpers, saved the day.
My parents always remembered that, as a toddler, he once picked up a screw from the floor, waddled over to the chair from whence it came and placed it in the exact port. A natural inclination for bolts and nuts from an early age. On the other hand, he was never interested in books – and bad at money management.
Encouraging youngsters to acquire manual skills in their early-teens equals a sort of DIY (Do it yourself) course, and those skills should come in handy when they have to fend for themselves. But it should not be compulsory.
Food banks. I am not so sure that some ‘middle class people’ – and people with sufficient disposable income – visit such places by necessity: they probably regard it as a gig. On a Thursday two weeks ago, I delayed visiting a local British-owned supermarket until around 6.00 pm and was surprised to find strategically placed tallboys, full of marked-down food items, including tinned stuff, and breads of every description. I bought a half-priced pack of baps and turned them into a bread-and-butter pudding for Sunday afters. I am tempted to change my shopping habits! A caper to me.
G Dennison
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