Suitcase Circus founder dies

As a youngster I'd long aspired to learning to juggle. I was astonished to find a book in the library that offered the promise of teaching me to do just this. I was even more astonished to discover that such a skill could be so capably communicated in a book and went on to teach myself a number of simple juggling tricks from the book. The book's author was Reg Bolton. When I first met Reg some years later in a small tent full of circus equipment I delightedly demonstrated with some tennis balls what his book had taught me. With a twinkle in his eye, Reg replaced one of my tennis balls with a shotput. A short while later I was just managing to juggle my two tennis balls and a shotput. I must have started looking cocky again. Reg promptly replaced one of the remaining tennis balls with a basketball. An extraordinary man. A remarkable legacy. My condolences and warm regards to Annie, Jo and Sophie. Grant Malcolm