UK manufacturing and the art of doing up a tie
I remember, when I was young, the importance of finding the thing that you were best at. Being best at something gave status, at a time in our primary school lives when we were all trying to understand our place in the world. Sometimes it was badge that was carried around with pride. Sometimes it was a consolation prize after we’d just realised that we weren’t the fastest runner or the best footballer or the most talented musician. A friend or a teacher would come over, put an arm around you’re shoulder, and say: “Yes, but, you’re best at...” and something trivial would usually follow, like doing up a tie correctly or being really punctual. And even though we all knew that any sentence beginning with ‘yes but...’ was never going to end with anything meaningful, it did at least give us something to cling on to in the dog-eat-dog world of primary education.
