My parents did not believe in going to the pictures. I can only remember being taken by my parents when they went to the pictures once maybe twice.

We went to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Before the major screening, a support film was shown. It was about ”Muffles the Monkey”. He had escaped from the circus and entered the home of this woman. She was out of the time hanging washing on the line.

Muffles climbed through the window, put on her pink dressing gown, her pink slippers, and pink nightcap and powdered himself with her pink powder.

Muffles made a hell of a mess and had a ball until re-captured by the circus people.

As an eight-year-old boy, I was fascinated and wanted to be like Muffles.

Maybe the closest I ever got was to have as my favourite colour more than six decades later, in fact, seven decades, pink as my favourite colour.