Book excerpt: The book is a collection of stories about my childhood until I reached the age of 12. Some of the stories are true, some are outrageously embellished and the remaining few are outright fabrications. It is a very humorous series of mistakes and misjudgements on my behalf. It offers an insight into the bright ideas I had which I believed were genius but which were actually quite stupid. Luckily for me; my parents and my siblings there was no long-term damage, and we all survived. We can still laugh about our childhood antics to this day.