It's a flash of pure brilliance. I can even remember the day it was invented. I was just about the same age as you are now and it was a Sunday morning and my dad comes into the kitchen holding a huge white rooster in his hands.
"I think I’ve got it," he says. There's a little smile on his face and a shine of glory in his eyes and he comes in very soft and quick and puts the bird down right in the middle of the kitchen table. "By golly," he says, "I’ve got a good one this time."
The introduction of the Sticky Hat poaching method from Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl