How many people live in your house?

You do what you can and if you can't you learn how to. That's what he did, plumbing and electrical he taught himself because then you didnt pay for it. Then when the exams came up as necessary he just booked them, checked anything he didn't know and flew through them first time. It did mean he could learn when it was not required for someone with a license to do everything. Same with motorbikes, he had a triumph in the 70s so if you manage to keep that running you learn a lot about it. He rebuilt engines, my little 50cc we dropped that out and did tappits, replaced head gaskets, the lot. I asked why about some part of the engine and he got a notepad out and drew diagrams explaining how the entire internal combustion system worked. Kept a Nissan bluebird running for ages just because everything was simple for him to fix. He was a ridiculously experienced sailor as was my mum (who did the vast majority of raising us after they split when I was 5, no one is perfect, tho she comes close to it) or he wouldn't have taken us anywhere, cos well kids. He hired a yacht once maybe 25 years ago (his wasn't finished) and we went over to the channel isles. On the way over there were dolphins and fish flanking the boat in the moonlight. Did Alderney, Sark, Herm and Guernsey. Trip back was put off 4 days due to weather, it was supposed to be good on the way back but it was fucking awful as we got to about halfway. My dad tied himself to the seat, waves smashed over the boat and him all night and it was flung around everywhere. I've got a marine compass now tho not sure what to do with it lol. At the funeral to my surprise then complete understanding I found he was known as the oracle to my step mums side of the family. Always knew everything, which tracked with my experience until I surpassed him in my own areas. I wanted to be the one who knew things too. Was kinda nice being able to help someone who always helped me with everything if I asked. I had a major panic during a college project after my grandad died and he helped me write a company inventory system project im basic and code it. He did always know the answer, my mum almost always did but taught me to look up anything she couldn't answer together as she had different specialisations that got asked about less. Family nickname for me ended up as Mr Google as anything I don't know I need to know and thanks to my mum I can research extremely well and with a good memory it means I can often just answer weird questions too. My dads workshop was immense, had wood, plastic and metal stock, welding, electronics, electric, manual, pneumatic and petrol powered gear. He could operate diggers, cars, motorbikes, boats, planes, then again take out the diggers and my mum could do the same. She and her sister set records for youngest qualified pilots where they lived and my grandad flew Lancasters in ww2 then commercial jets. The workshop got taken apart when they moved to a bungalow and put in storage. My step brother appears to have picked over it, then for some reason they got a clearance place to do it for the contents. Obviously a lot was moved based on what we found after he died but there was tonnes of stuff missing. Even the 20 railway sleepers were one thing and all the custom rigs and jigs he made