If you've ever been in an
there's a fair amount of
And there is, for instance,
you could get caned at school.
If you misbehaved at school,
I got caned because I was generally,
But you could get caned in the
If you misbehaved in the orphanage,
Not a lot, it wasn't a big deal,
girls didn't get caned,
The two were the same.
When I joined the RAF,
so the orphanage, 300 kids
about 30 kids in each house.
I'm in an all-boys,
We're - us boys are like
we're aged 9 to 15, and there are
But it's a bit like when
you know, I was in a
at one stage I was in a dormitory
And you're just part of it.
You're just part of that team.
And when you're on a squadron,
So the similarities - it was just very
from one institution
to another institution
that looked after you
There were really great things
So as an airman, I got paid
£5 a week or something
And it was a pay parade so
every Friday there would be
And you'd march up and
But on the first pay parade that I
you can either take the £5
and you leave us with a pound
and we will put it in a
so I decided, for no good reason,
"Well, I think I'll just take the £4".
It was already £2 more than I had been
so it wasn't a loss to me.
So I just collected £4 a week
for the next 3 years,
And 3 or 4 years later,
I bought my first car
that the RAF had saved me.
