This is in my parents back garden in 1989, when we were 14 years old.
We were both at Bushfield at the time. There was a lot of bullying at the time and we used to bodyguard each other. If someone attacked Christopher we would say, "leave him alone I'm his bodyguard".
We had our national newspaper called the Daily Bodyguard, it cost 6p. It was banned by the head of year and we used to secretly sell this to the English teacher, who thought it was great.
We used to walk through the Orton Centre making "oooo-oooo" noises and because we did it all together, it was loud. People used to come running to the entrance of the shops to "see what was happening".
Christopher used to "faint" in the Orton Centre and we would all gather round.
Someone pooed in the boys urinals and we had a boys assembly, it was just before 9:00h and everyone's hourly chime went off.
One of the next door neighbours used to sell the Daily Bodyguard to members of the public. He knocked on peoples doors and asked them if they wanted to place an order.
He would also ask members of the public if they knew where Bodyguard headquarters was. We were all up a tree trying not to laugh.
A group of us used to go and see the maths teacher Mr Lobo at the end of the day and he would give us a "Kinder Surprise" - his version, which was where he would slap us on the back of the head and work his way along the row. We kept going back.
In the late eighties, early nineties there was a church in Orton called St. Barnabas and they used to have open air street evangelism in the Orton Centre. For Christopher's Art GCSE timed test on 5/6 April 1991 he did a piece of art based on the evangelism. There was a black and white Orton Centre and a lightening of colour where believers were singing to God.
He was called a freak for it. I did a piece on the birth of Jesus but
it was not too obvious what it was.