Abstract :
THE AXE FELL at dad¿s work but somehow missed him. He can¿t believe it, especially when others got the chop, including all the graduates they¿ve recruited in the last three years. (I¿m reminding him of this at least once a day to make up for the terrible time he¿s given me since I said ¿ aged seven ¿ that I was never going to be an engineer.)