I Got Through My Teen Years By

It Was A Very Odd Household, Because The Grandmothers Were So Different. Both Of Them Had Their Own Pianos. So It Would Be Duelling Pianos By Grandmothers.

Very Quickly, Without Really Looking Back Or Trying, I Was Just Suddenly Lifted Into Another Sphere.

I Spoke French A Bit, And I Could Speak A Bit Of This And That, And When You Were Taught Those Things By People Who Couldn't Really Do It, You Can Do Some Pretty Wonderfully, Imaginative Horrific Things To Teachers.

Both My Parents Were Doctors, And My Mother Had Her Surgery In The House. There Were Six Children.

You Never Came Home For Lunch: You Just Stayed Doing, Playing, Having Fun, Surfing, Running Round.