It is said the ‘pride comes before a fall’. The ‘old’ folks know best, and several times I have witnessed both the ‘pride’, and consequent ‘fall’, of pompous idiots. A colloquial expression that springs to mind about such a person, usually, but not exclusively a male, is that they have their heads so far up their own arse, their brains have turned to shit.

By far the most dramatic example I have ever witnessed was whilst working at a fully-functional Power Station, whilst constructing an extension to a switch-house.

In this short but true tale, I have changed the names involved, and also the name of the station itself. This event took place very early in my ‘career’ as a steel-erector, and like other power stations, it was unceremoniously dismantled some time ago.

Looking around Britain, and other locations in the world, it would seem that the only ‘stuff’ we build that actually survives, are the walls built to keep us apart, both physically and metaphorically.

Pride