Inventive

First published in Column 8, date unknown, but sometime in the 1990s. 

Though only thirty years old, the discussions in this column seem like they come from a different century. Ah, wait! - they do.

Getting irritable with things that don’t do quite what’sexpected of them has its advantages. Wehumans delight in setting to and improving the aforesaid irritable things, orelse inventing something altogether new.

I know it sounds chauvinistic to say it, but usually it’sthe men who do the improv...