He doesn't have anything to do with his mother because she kicked him out of home.
Before he left home, Pickering’s sexual appetite was already legendary. He reckons he
slept with every girl his mother brought home for safe-keeping, not realising she harboured
a viper in the nest. “My mother had always wanted a girl and so she brought all these
broken girls into the family and supposedly she was going to convert them to her religion. But they never really converted and I had usually made love to them before she got
a chance anyway.”
