By this time I was on the scene, hindering most of my mother's attempts to maintain an active part in the business. Some of my earliest childhood recollections are I suppose bizarre by most standards. Dr. Who monster in the kitchen. Tales of the Riverbank 'Hammy' stealing my bedtime cocoa. I am still not sure but I think, one night I came downstairs for a drink of milk to find the hall full of a family of giant, and I mean giant, talking pandas (I must ask them about that). I even remember a 12' long Python (yes it was called Monty) which had become the reference for a clockwork snake being made for a film (Dr. Phibes I think). Of course this also had the advantage of lending a certain credibility to me as a school boy amongst my peers at any rate, when I could furnish information as to how to make bombs with actual timers as used in the Great Train Robbery.

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