bearing in mind my paranoia i found a pencil and lightly rubbed the side of the point across the next page in the pad , just like they do in the movies and it revealed quite clearly the plus sign then the numbers 960 ( +960 ) , nothing dastardly , just the registration number of my first car sue 960 , i will never forget it , she rambled on , not realising that no one was listening to her , it was one of the early minis , the ones with the doors that had sliding windows , a cable that you had to pull down on to get out of the damn thing , a pocket in the door designed to take a bottle of gordons gin and i used to call it .