Things you made/attempted to make (and details thereof) in school

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GCSE Product Design: made a key holder with a torch in it for old folks. Quite good.

AS Level Product Design: a sexy ergonomic computer mouse. Meh.

A Level Product Design: This was amazing. A new bridge for guitars (two versions – Les Paul style bridge and Stratocaster), which contained strings in barrels. You pushed the button down, and pulled the string out to attach at the head. If your string snapped - BAM - pull out some more string and away you go. I swear it had legs.

Anyway I don’t want to toot my own horn but I didn’t drop a single mark throughout any of the above. My subsequent career does not accurately represent this success.

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One of those things that you put out for the milkman to tell him how many pints of milk you want. In the shape of a penguin, if I remember correctly.

I also made a cake for my brother in cooking with the words HAPPY BIRTHDAY [REDACTED] in icing on the top. Unfortunately I used water icing and not butter icing, and so by the time it got home it looked more like this: