" These new recruits found that life at the Firs was never dull. Bombs exploded unexpectedly, sheds caught fire and, on one memorable occasion, an entire corner of the building ‘containing some lethal liquid’ blew up in a spectacular explosion. It was hastily repaired, before the owner of the property, Major Abrahams, got to hear about it. "

― Giles Milton , Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat