"They like this tea with onesugarand a little bit of milkand they consume it almost on a daily basis, and the same with people who are chocoholics, " he says.
His notion of a day's work was to ask a passer-by for tuppence for a cup of tea and, having got the money, produce Thermos, milkandsugar for the astonished benefactor and inquire whether they wanted one lump, or two.