My father spent his last days in the service of Lord Banbury's son, Dunstable Banbury (pictured right - centre), the man generally credited for ridding North Worcestershire of Irritable Sheep Syndrome in the late 19th Century. In a simple stroke of genius, the cure involved hiding the troublesome livestock at the top of a large oak tree, until it realised the error of its ways. This radical new approach was scorned upon by much of the agricultural community until well after the turn of the century, mainly due to the fact that standing under an oak tree became a far more hazardous affair than had previously been thought the case.

My first expedition with Lord Croft, here in China at the Great Wall, 1931. Note that the wall was intact in those days, before a Ms. Croft recently managed to put rather a large hole in it - a blatant example of shoddy adventuring and expeditioning.