I fixed up the skeleton that I made for a cupboard at the wonderful Forest House Hotel in Coleford, yesterday. I made it a couple of years ago for fun.

When you open the door the eyes light up and the arms and legs move. Children love it so much, they finally broke the strings, so I had to go and fix them up again.

I couldn’t remember how I had arranged things. There were a number of complicated ways I thought I could have done it. Then I remembered I had found a really simple system. It didn’t need much movement. Just a little was enough – after all, no one knows what to expect when the open the cupboard.