And then the day that David Greybeard took the nut from my hand and then didn't want the nut, then very gently squeezed my fingers like chimp reassurance, which was a clear communication between me and him - it was a very extraordinary moment.
Now they are going to find themselves very heavily squeezed.
Social housing expenditure, as widely predicted, will be very radically squeezed.
But its sentimentality is so relentless and its narrative so predictable that the life is very nearly squeezed out of it.
The smell of a very gently squeezed ladybird, she once said, "will stay on your hands for days".A natural philosopherAs the years passed, this passionate scientist, who had never taken a degree and lived most of the time on the farm where she had been born, accumulated eight honorary doctorates.
"There are areas like the armed services, the police, local government, which have really been squeezed very hard and it's difficult to see how you could repeat the cuts exercise we already had again," he said.
Pour lemon syrup over cake, and very gently squeeze the cake to help it absorb syrup.
He would take a tube of cadmium yellow, which even then was very expensive, squeeze the whole thing out onto the canvas and swirl it around.
