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BiTS: It's a nice place. My wife and I met near Brighton. Anyway, she comes from
Burgess Hill.

AS: Alright, I was actually born in Burgess Hill.

BiTS: Were you now?

AS: In a place called Keymer.

BiTS: I know that. I don't know
anybody there, but I know that place.

AS: My father was a teacher at a school
in Burgess Hill at the time.

BiTS: Well, I never did. What a small
world, isn't it?

AS: Isn’t it just.

BiTS: I gather that you worked in the
city when you started work, or was that

not the first job you had?

AS: It was the first proper job, the first
career job I did after leaving college. I

didn't get to university because I didn't
work hard enough, basically [laughs],
but for about 18 months I worked in a

factory that made cardboard tubes. I
drove a grocery delivery van. I worked
in a laundry. I cut grass, I cleaned

lavatories and did a general sort of
cleaning job at a school. I did a summer
season on the entertainment staff at a

holiday camp on the Isle of Wight. That
was fabulous. That was a wonderful
experience, and I think a life changing experience in that it changed me from being
a somewhat shy and retiring young lad, to being a bit more outgoing and realising

that I just loved making a fool of myself, I suppose, but equally I loved entertaining
people.

BiTS: Well, I reckon the holiday camp experience ought to be compulsory because

I share that with you as well. I worked in the same sort of way as you, I guess, at a
place on the South Coast at Seaton in Devon.

AS: Oh, yes, yes.

BiTS: Anyway, enough said about that because it was lively times.