Sewing - It's really technical!
John McCormick
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Paid: £75 plus expenses if required for long travel
- Category:
- Hobbies
- Updated:
- 14th March 2026
This important topic will strike fear into the hearts of many males, and give an unbearable sense of smugness to any female present. Many a time in my household I’ve been asked to intervene in a sewing, or quilting or knitting design or implementation with the refrain “You should be able to figure this out, you’re technical”. But when I have a look at it, it’s invariably completing bamboozling, and astonishingly complex. It often defeats me, or requires a very long time for me to figure it out. So, gentlemen, I bring grim news … sewing is really technical. Terrifyingly, menacingly technical..
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I've recently retired and one of the things I'm looking forward to is to spend more time speaking and telling stories. I regularly give talks in my local village in the Cotswolds, the fabulous Hook Norton. These talks have ranged from the history of Bletchley Park to the Apollo space programme, to the history of flight to the story of how they solved how to measure Longitude. I'm happy to give these talks to other groups, or to research and then speak on a topic of interest to groups.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by John McCormick
- Crossword puzzles, Bombes, Colossus and the birth of modern computing
- The Race to the moon - The US manned lunar exploration programme
- The Wright Brothers to Concorde in 60 years. Crikey!
- Longitude - The Quest for east and west
- Are computers really that smart? Or do we just make them look smart?
- Nothing - why zero is so important in Mathematics
- Wall Paintings - a picture really is worth a thousand words
- The original Lunar Society
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