[BITList] Keep women out of engineering

[HUGH]

John,

That story wasn't about me.  My boxes of springs and things are too many and 
too securely stashed away for Janet even to think of consulting them for 
such a purpose.  She has been known to find a screw to hammer into a wall, 
but not often.  The banging usually gives the game away - one time it didn't 
was when she, for some reason that has never been properly explained, was 
hammering a nail or a screw into the bathroom wall and dropped the hammer, 
causing a dent/hole to appear in the bath.  I found the dent/hole when I was 
preparing to run water for a bath, and that ablution had to wait till the 
fibreglass repair set hard and was painted.  We don't have a lot of trouble 
with appliances - I won't go into the strange case of the TV that will go in 
one room but not in another.  The exploding vacuum cleaner was a one off, 
usually what ails them is the wrong fuse, a full bag, a slipping or broken 
belt, or a strange object picked up.

Hugh.