THE EVENING WITH BANJO WAS A HOOT. The younger Cameron was a first-class larrikin: funny, witty, and outlandish. He had a flair for the dramatic and the musical; his story-telling involved a lot of hand gestures and was punctuated with sound effects.
At times, Belle was just an eyewitness rather than a participant. She noted that the brothers weren’t shy about being touchy-feely with each other, but it came in the guise of contact sport—hard thumping, arm wrestling, head locking, chest puffing and lifting each other off the ground. At one point, she feared the worse when Banjo had Bryce pinned to the ground in an awkward position. She anxiously put a stop to it.
‘Stop, you’re hurting him.’
She stood over them wide-eyed.
The men looked up, saw fear registered on her face, looked at each
