Used to be like that myself, Fran. I wouldn't get the right tool because 1] I didn't believe I had a hope in hell of doing the job right, and 2] I didn't have the patience to do a job badly. But really, getting the right tool means you're halfway there already. When you get that kind of a leg-up it gives you the confidence to try harder and perhaps be a little more patient with yourself. Nowadays I can use the wrong tool, knowing full well how wrong a tool I can use and get away with it. Using a spoon I reserve for measuring out the coffee though. And that's important too, of course.
As a boy I used to raid the cutlery drawer for spoons to use to take the tyre of my bike to mend a puncture. My mother was always asking who had bent the spoons when she laid the table for dinner! I always said it must have been my brother and for some reason she knew straight away it was me and I would get a thick ear for doing it and another for trying to get my angelic brother into trouble. Many years ago I knew a guy who used to teach philosophy at the University and yet he was a very practical main and was always doing DIY jobs exceptionally well.
I once got some ink on the spare room wall, so I quickly wrote 'I hate Fran' underneath it so my brother would get the blame!!!
Just to remind people without the facility or know-how to listen at another times on iPlayer or other remote means, Ron Davies is said to be featured this week in an edition of Last Word, on BBC Radio 4 today, at 4pm and repeated on Sunday at 8.30pm. His segment was held over and replaced by the previous edition for the death of author Tom Sharpe.
Same here, but looking at the details of the episode I don't think he's been featured this week either. I'm beginning to suspect that club historian Duncan Holley was interviewed for another programme and we've missed it.
