What any fool can do for a pound…

Firstly, well done with Readers’ Letters – it is my first port of call when I get OBM.

In reply to the query by Tony Gutteridge of ‘what is an engineer’, when I started my engineering training 67 years ago I was told that “an engineer is a bloke who can do for 10 pence what any fool can do for a pound”. Brian Percival Brightlingsea, Essex