that I was showing them a fairly rare Sinclair Atkins Style British insulator, used in New Zealand. What got them going was that I could take it apart, and a wire passed through it.

They were very interested in all the different shapes, and colours, but the suspension insulators stole the show. Again it was all the different shapes and colours. No one cared that they were glass or porcelain, it was all about the colours shining in the sunlight. Then came the question I have been dreading, do they come apart? Oh yes, they do, and then I showed them how they were assembled, then taken apart.

Another favourite was asking if I had insulators from certain countries. Italy, Norway, Japan I did. Bulgaria I did. Then someone asked if I had insulators from South Africa. I told them Namibia had been a protectorate of South Africa for a time, and that seemed good enough