Okay, so that's a shot of family life. But now for a much happier shot. When I had this little house in Marston Street, I started to – I still had the set of Buccaneer – and I started to decorate it for when the kids came so that the kids would like it. And up in the Cowley Road there was a place that sold all kinds of plastic soldiers, Arabs and I don't know what. And so I went there and I used to buy various figures that could stand in some of the ports of Buccaneer, and various other things, oh and palm trees and so on and so on. And so the children would come and they would love to play Buccaneer.

Here we are in 2014. This year, we have played Buccaneer all those years after. My dear daughter, Wendy, now possesses the Buccaneer board and all that therein is. It's now a much bigger board – well it's on a cloth, actually – and a much bigger Treasure Island and more industrious ports.

And then they would come up regularly and always say, could we play Buccaneer?

And, as they were maturing, it was necessary to complicate this further, and so slavery came in. And for slavery – yes, it was very profitable to slave – but you had to go to London to get a pardon or you couldn't win. And so, of course, when you were going to London, all the other ships would be against you. And that was part of the fun of playing Buccaneer that throughout the years, as my dear children have developed... and now Wendy's boys, who are not of a generation of playing board games, nevertheless play Buccaneer.

So, that was one of the linkages that I had to keep in touch with my children.