Being given a Meccano kit and banging it together to make alsorts of things, my son dosn't seem to have the same interest as I had then. Dad giving me an old car that had failed the mot and tinkering around with that
Living close to Northolt, and the school playground over-looking the end of the of the runway, during the breaks as couldn't be bothered to kick the younger kids around as it stopped being fun, several of us took to plane spotting. With the occasional bicycle ride to Heathrow to stand at the intersection of 27R and 23.
Then came the time to leave school and several of the others went for job interviews with BEA and BOAC which sounded interesting, Yes in the dim and distant past, (stop yawning at the back there). The end result is that I was the only one who got the apprenticeship with BEA or BOAC, now, known to all as BA plc. Many of the others went on to work for the GPO, now known to all as British Telecom.