Bought this from (where else?) the garden centre. Made me remember a conversation we had in the summer. We'd been walking around Derbyshire, looking at a renovated and much-loved pumping station. There are so many retired engineers around here, the tour-giver said, that there's starting to be a shortage of interesting old engineering projects to be repaired and refurbished.
Presumably though that problem will soon be solved as new generations of engineers retire and new technologies retire with them. Soon they'll be bringing ancient voicemail systems back to life, reenacting installs of old software, getting them up and purring again. And we'll all go along to special open days and point and remember - I had one of those! I used to log in to one of those - my code was 121224! We used one of those to download TV ratings, I had to reload the paper; it had those holes along the side!
I wonder when the Sealed Knot will do its first Y2K reenactment. I wonder if, this time, we'll lose.