If Britain goes down the plug hole, we can't blame three loadsamoney bankers, but did they need to be quite so gung-ho about it, and so mealymouthed with their apologies.

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But there were occasions when someone or other had a go — when I was going to have a drink from the fountain, for instance, and had to stand on tiptoe at the side to reach the jet of water. Then it was that the clever dogs saw their chance to do something tough atmy expense …

For a long time the turning was done manually, simply by pushing on a long tail-pole extending downwards, almost to the ground, from the rotatable superstructure.