....am i wrong in thinking that this looks a bit like a 'torture device', dazzlenation?...see previous post:

Victorian Rocking Horses (sallysrockinghorses.com)

on the other hand, i can remember aunt 'valentine gyde' buying me a 'plastic-rocking-horse-on-springs', as a child....she was also to buy RH - a model red car, to drive around....anyway, oscar was then told to take me off the damn thing, in case i broke it....i was riding it so 'hard'...lol.....a rather enthusiastic child....and yes, i was to break the springs, let us say - the 'mind control' apparatus then got 'ditched' pretty swiftly...although i still have a photo of it, which MOD/MI5 evans can indubitably remember....because he had told me that the only photo that they had of me, at that age....with 'chinese eyes' let us say....although obviously not a 'down's syndrome' number, like ingabot etc etc....lol.....who is on 'top' eh?...something that ros was to tell me about, at dartington...along the lines of  etc etc........see previous notes upon 'all of that'....go figure.