but anyway, erm, it came as a bit of a shock to me when  who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him, turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he'd come to collect my typewriter  we had no notice of this anyway  was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm, well I saw  and did a bit of typing and erm, that's how it all started.