Plate stacker performance, perfected. One advantage of living in a town of engineers: my plate carrier broke – I was incredibly nervous lifting 75 plates around in it – and no-one in the UK seems to make or sell them any more (the nearest manufacturer I could find is in Germany which seems a bit crazy to import one item). So I asked local @rtitanium, makers of top-notch titanium footpegs, if they could weld it back together. Tada! All fixed and probably stronger than before.

My home town of Barnoldswick is a community with a proud engineering heritage. My grandad and my dad worked at Rolls-Royce making aeroplane jet engine fan blades – @rollsroycegroup have two factories here – and there are many other engineering companies making top-in-class products including @hopetech (cycle components), @silentnightbeds (mattresses), @esse1854 (stoves and cookers) and, of course, @rtitanium (titanium footpegs). The history of industrial revolution workers and food is a fascinating one (@bbcfoodprog recently did an episode about West Riding of Yorkshire food in Bradford and mill towns up the Aire Valley to Skipton and Barnoldswick), but that’s a tale for another day. For now, I’m just grateful to be able to confidently shift huge piles of crockery around!