Oh, the pain, the agony. I did this playing with Jack’s toy helicopter, trying to catch it while he increased the rotor speed.
Ah, okay, it’s nothing but a big fib. Jack also got some horror make-up and I couldn’t help myself. I’ve been interested in horror make-up and special effects since I was a kid.
When I was about eleven years old, I got this for Christmas… 
It looked amazing, with latex moulds and actual latex stuff to pour into them, grease pain, false hair and blood capsules. Unfortunately, the results didn’t really come up to the standard on the box cover. I just looked like a kid with bits of plastic glued to my face.
A few years later, I wrote to BBC’s Take Hart because there had been a bloke on called Christopher Tucker, who had done the make-up for The Company of Wolves. I wanted to learn how to do horror make-up for real. The Beeb passed on my letter, and I got one back, but ended up doing electronics instead. Never mind, the dream still lives on, so when our Jack got some Snazeroo Speceial FX Moulding Wax, I was more excited than he was.
Childhood dreams never die, they just lurk until you get a chance to be a kid once more – even if it’s just for a few hours.
Eww. My brother-in-law is always posting his outback injuries (done with fishing hooks and so on) on Facebook. Something tells me you two would get on like a house on fire!