A portrait of the writer as a nine-year-old.
Perhaps Mrs Wild could foresee the direction my career would take when she wrote those comments in my primary school report? Note my "terribly thorough" attention to detail. The "extremely praiseworthy" results. The sense of humour that "baffles". Baffles? Still, whatever you conclude, don't expect me to run you up a set of curtains in a hurry. As the following remark from the same report makes brutally clear:
