Wrigley’s gave me 5,000 to start me off. I’ve now used nearly 3m
I don’t know what to put it down to, but I’ve always been a collector, a completist, a statistician – and maybe a little competitive.
As a schoolboy in Canada, I was fascinated by the Guinness Book of Records and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!. I would memorise the records and amaze my friends by quoting them.
