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My temperature was taken and by some miracle (a combination, perhaps, of an excitement-induced adrenalin rush and sheer will-power) it was slightly up! By this time I was sniffing and snuffling with the occasional fit of teeth-chattering shivers thrown for added effect. Once at school, I developed a irritating cough that worsened throughout the morning's lessons until I was sent to the deputy headmaster, Mr Edwards, who was also responsible for First Aid and all medical referrals. So began the best acting performance I've ever given. I had read about this film, I had pored over pictures from the various sequences reproduced in books and seen one or two clips on black-and-white TV, but I had never seen the movie itself! What's more, if I missed it this time around, I'd have to wait years to get another chance! It was showing at the nearby Bromley Odeon on a Wednesday and being mid-week, with school the following day, I knew my parents would never allow me to go to the evening performance, so I simply had to see it in the afternoon.

This was in the days before videos and DVDs and this particular Disney film was only ever shown, every few years and strictly as one-day-only screenings. Walt Disney's 1940 classic, Fantasia, was showing at a local picture-house. I had never played truant before: I wasn't that kind of kid – mainly because I simply didn't have the guts!

#Flamingo dance fantasia yo yo how to

It was forty-five years ago and I was planning how to skip school.