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the personal repertoire of skills In Vulcan 2 I established the fact that any physical activity can be seen as a sensori‐motor activity. It was emphasised that it is not merely work and sports skills to which this applies: it also applies to everyday domestic skills such as eating one's food, putting on one's shoes in the dark, washing up and cooking. Every individual has quite an extensive repertoire of skills in this sense, determined by that person's previous history and experience. Quite a lot of what a growing baby has to learn involves the building up of this domestic skills portfolio. Certain skills contained in the domestic portfolio are directly useful in people's jobs: such things as putting nuts on to threads, putting stoppers in bottles, using a screwdriver, scissors or other domestic hand tools, operating taps (faucets), switches and dialled displays.