Aged 9 a mate Denis and I, found some unused electric dets,in a quarry, we daisy chained them together and pushed them into a row of old cabbages in my dads garden and set them off with a couple of cycle batteries in series, he was not impressed we were banned from going out of the garden for a week, and my backside hurt for a couple of days He was a policeman !!! when I got beaten up by a classmate (he put his dad in prison) I went to rough old school, His response to that was, its about time you were able to look after your self and paid my bus fares and a years gym fees to Gravesend boxing club in gorden road, It turned me into a fly weight champion, was never bothered again, the kids today Really don't know we had the best of freedom ever, and if discipline ever came into it we knew why, and found a way of not being caught again. Andrew.h.
