[AJTSheppard]

Yma o Hyd!

I started my working life at age sixteen as a coal miner at the Deep Navigation Colliery in South Wales.

Today, building useful and interesting machines has a lot in common with coal mining. A lot of hard work, and the perpetual risk of being crushed to death by 1,000 feet of rock above you. (The last part is perhaps a bit of a stretch, but it oftentimes feels that way!)