Michael Thexton

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I was very lucky to grow up in the Methodist Ministers Training College where my father was a tutor.

So we had a lot of space.

I had a big old building that I could run around and explore.

And one of the big London parks, just as almost my back garden.

It was a great place to grow up.

So Peter was about six years older than me.

And I can't remember much about...

our early years together.

He went to boarding school.

He was quite difficult as a small child.

My parents didn't really know what to do with him.

They ended up sending him away to boarding school when he was about eight or nine.

And it's funny, when we were clearing out my mother's house after she'd gone into a care home,

And we found lots of old letters, including letters that he wrote from boarding school when he'd just gone there, you know, when he was sort of eight or nine.

And a letter to me, you know, described me as his best pal.

And I don't remember that.

He obviously wrote letters to me.

The thing was that I sort of I worshipped him.

At boarding school, he started climbing.