Building towers is not all Bonda can do, though. I can train him to do many other things - bowl me two dozen fast balls in ten minutes so that I can practise my batting, bring down my secret treasure box from the topmost shelf (which is so high that no one else can reach it without a ladder), lift Baba’s heavy desk so I can see where my tiny gold earring has rolled off to (Ma would yell at me for hours if I lost it) ... Things like that.