So the big decision is whether I get a back tattoo now, or wait until after I’ve been travelling.’ I was talking to India at Reception and the conversation had floated into unfamiliar waters; waters with hidden rocks and sandbanks.

‘I don’t have a tattoo so I can’t really judge,’ I replied as neutrally as possible. ‘You’re still young, maybe it’s best not to use up all the space now.’

‘Maybe you’re right, I’ll just finish off the leg first.’ As someone who cannot understand why anyone would want a tattoo and even if I did would be terrified of my parents finding out, I did not have much to add. But it made me feel the generation gap.

In the tech world, there is always a fresh crop of young engineers who make the older generation feel the ageing process acutely. In accounting, experience is thankfully more widely valued, but in tech, the older Engineers and Management tend to overcompensate in their efforts to keep up with the current trends.