I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
Robert Louis Stevenson conceived Treasure Island to entertain his stepson on a wet Scottish holiday.
"A hot, wet childhood holiday got me into magic," Daniels has described in a previous interview.
"A hot, wet childhood holiday got me into magic," Daniels once said.
We have just witnessed a peculiarly English annual ritual, as familiar as a wet bank holiday Monday.
Fifty years later, Colin Dexter, also bored on a wet, Welsh holiday in August, created the music-loving detective, Inspector Morse.
For a label whose heritage is as British as a wet bank holiday weekend, the Indonesian and African references in the prints and beading were a surprise.
As a result, it became the focus of several heavy outbreaks of rain and thunderstorms, culminating in a disappointingly wet Bank Holiday in England and Wales.
To the uninitiated, it might sound like the very embodiment of British eccentricity to be filed under Gilbert and Sullivan, morris dancing and re-enacting the battle of Culloden over a wet bank holiday weekend.
I was interested in what a museum such as the Met or the British Museum means, as a hub of learning, a world of wonder, a tourist magnet, a tool of cultural diplomacy, a site of pilgrimage, a place to take the kids on a wet bank holiday.
