Now turn the handle
Whereupon either 1) lots of yummy nutmeg is sprinkled over the bread-and-butter pudding or 2) the plate and the whole nutmeg fall into the pudding and get all wet and sticky. The outcome seems to depend on which direction you turn the handle. As both my brother-in-law and I are left-handed, it is probable that many layers of error and counter-correction produced this situation.
This is the brother-in-law who once built a harpsichord from a kit. It was beautiful, except that he had put the high notes at the left and the low ones at the right. It's only a sign convention, after all :-)
Now turn the handle
Whereupon either 1) lots of yummy nutmeg is sprinkled over the bread-and-butter pudding or 2) the plate and the whole nutmeg fall into the pudding and get all wet and sticky. The outcome seems to depend on which direction you turn the handle. As both my brother-in-law and I are left-handed, it is probable that many layers of error and counter-correction produced this situation.
This is the brother-in-law who once built a harpsichord from a kit. It was beautiful, except that he had put the high notes at the left and the low ones at the right. It's only a sign convention, after all :-)