There were always lots of people at The Grange, a 17th century house (with some adds from 19th), and on can easily imagine the children listening amazing stories of these travelling men about their adventures on the roads. Bunny was a mother who used to be very attentive to her children and to encourage them to follow their own dreams.
Add to that the presence of numerous animals (ponies, dogs, rats, ferrets, and even mice) and also a drawing-room, a sort of playroom were children could draw, paint or play music. Brett loved to drag to this room Leslie Huggins, his uncle, who was a music master in "Bradley School in Stowe", for playing piano, every time he went for a visit.

With all of this, the four children 's career the is not a surprise : John became a clergyman, Michael a painter, and Patrick, a farmer. The latest one, as he discovered Laurence Olivier playing Henry V, at the Cameo cinema of Berkswell where he went four times a week by bicycle, decided for our greatest happiness to become … an actor.

Notes :

1 : Interview of Brett by Robert Aubry Davis for American radio WETA, November 1991. this interview of one hour has been published in CD and in booklet (English/French) by The JBSF. see publication
2 Stage Struck, august 1990. Interview done by Pam Clarke.