b'exist. At another factory, huge steel tubes wereand rewired houses, completely fearless. When made by the same people that made hypodermicI built a model, it was from scratch, not from a needles, then the tech boys took the smallestkit, and when it was finished, the fun was over, it needle in the world and made another needle thatwas only the making that interested me. My other fitted inside that one, just for fun.sister, Mary, tells me that no one could have a bath I saw the posidrive screw head while it was infor weeks because I was soaking rosewood in it. I its trial stages, and a screwdriver that smacked aremember curing resin in moms oven, and boiling screw through two sheets of metal, then screwedlinseed oil on the kitchen stove. That was an early it home automatically. From one of those courses Ilesson - if you cant find boiled linseed oil, buy came away with sections of aluminium helicopterordinary linseed oil and boil it. Sorry about the blades, which I still have somewhere as rather oddcooker Mom, and the kitchen.sculptures. Watching aluminium being squeezed soMy parents were very patient, and a little bemused. hard that it squirts from a shaped nozzle like icingLooking back I think I was incredibly lucky, the sugar was boring to some, but breathtaking to me. direct support I received wasnt huge, but I wasnt I joined the local radio amateurs club ~ Morseheld back in any way. If I wanted to try something, code, red hot valves and big batteries. On oneone way or another it was made possible. I didnt Friday evening, I was on the roof of Cadburysrealise it but I owe them a lot. chocolate factory in the radio shack, and I heardI had a few brief adventures on stage as well; I was about Kennedys assassination, more or less as itin a school play with Ian Lavender - Stupid boy happened from a radio ham in Dallas.At home IPike from Dads Army. I thought I was quite good, built all sorts of electronic devices, starting off withbut afterwards the drama teacher took me on one valve radios and moving onto multi channel radioside and said, Roger, I think you would be really control models as the newly invented transistorgood behind the scenes. Was that a hint? I won became available.I bought my first lathe, andprizes for metalwork and woodwork, and on one spent all my spare time making things.occasion, ran up the stairs at the side of the stage I knocked down walls, fitted windows, built stablesto receive my prize, all full of cocky, tripped over ShakespeareGoodfellow and Ariel. I think about one hundred feet of hand cutting round all the branches and shapes The lamps are The Orsino and Othello are supported by wooden wedges onindividually lit by spotlights, and most of the resulting shadows the stage floor, which is made up of several sections rising atwashed out by additional lighting onto the backdrop. A plywood increasing angles from the horizontal, a trick used in theatre tobracket holding the branches can be seen top right. You can give the impression of distance. Each of the added props suchsee the border between the two angled floor pieces quite clearly as the slippers is a separate item, cut out from MDF sheet. Thehere.lighting here is coming from between the wings, leaving one curtain dark and one bright.24'