Tooled up: what the stuff we work with says about us

The right kit or workstation can make all the difference to the way we approach the task at hand, says Senay Boztas Peter Booth has a special tool for bending pipes: it belonged to his grandfather, it’s a bit battered, but it works. “It’s a bit of pride, a bit of history, and I’m always showing that tool off on social media,” he says.Booth, like his father and his father before him, is head of the family’s plumbing and heating firm GV Booth, based in Loughboro