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You may think, from looking at Ben’s photograph that butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth - but not so! Late in 2001, when ‘Workout for a Balanced Brain’ was published in Australia, I was asked to do a live interview with a Radio Station in Perth, Western Australia. The interview went out at 3 pm Western Australia time, which was 7 am Sunday morning UK time. Despite the unearthly hour, the interview didn’t go too badly and I was feeling fairly relaxed in my dining room answering some quite difficult questions, while Ben sat patiently at the side of me waiting for his breakfast. Then, just as the hapless interviewer was half way through asking his most involved and difficult question, one which he must have spent all night and all day thinking up, the worst thing that could have happened did, and all hell was let loose as Ben saw a cat through the dining room window. Apart from almost barking the house down and totally drowning out the second half of the question, Ben shot across the dining room in a brown blur before throwing himself against the kitchen door with a sickening crash. Although I struggled valiantly to hear the rest of the question, I didn’t have a chance and by this time had totally forgotten the first half of the question also. As I floundered to find an answer to a question I hadn’t even heard, the racket continued, the interview was brought to an untimely end, and I got the impression that the interviewer was not quite able to see the funny side of things. Ben has quite a loud bark for a such a little dog, but I believe the 9000 miles between the UK and Perth is the furthest his bark has ever travelled. From that day on, www has become forever known to me, not as World Wide Web but as World Wide Woof! |
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When Chaos Ruled! |
