Surviving the past one day at a time
Posted in Best Friend, Childhood, Malc, Rich on Sep 10th, 2010
There was more drama and very nearly another tantrum at the optician’s. When he put the test frame on me I thought they were the glasses I’d have to wear. I was very quickly disabused of that notion before I’d drawn enough breath to start shouting. The test took ages but the optician was finally [...]
Well, wishes and prayers didn’t work; I couldn’t even see Mummy’s face properly when she woke me up so the morning started with tears, self-pity and breakfast, of course. Once my older sisters had left for school we got ready for the journey to Petworth. We could have waited until Thursday when the doctor held [...]
Posted in Best Friend, Childhood, Malc, Rich, School on Sep 4th, 2010
Rich’s loyalty, support and protection helped to make the worst day of my young life almost tolerable. I was seven years old, had moved to the second block of the class and had already secured my place at the back right hand desk. Nobody was going to take that away from me, ever! One morning [...]
Posted in Best Friend, Childhood, Malc, Rich, School on Sep 2nd, 2010
Rich and I devised a naughty trick to play on Mrs Chalfont, the Infants Teacher. When she got cross with us for whispering to each other she called my name then Rich’s. I stood up but Rich didn’t and when she got even angrier I said innocently “But, Miss Malcolm Richard is my name.” That [...]
Posted in Best Friend, Childhood, Malc, Rich on Aug 30th, 2010
One of the defining tales of my childhood goes back a little further into the mists of time. If I’ve told this story already I apologise for repeating myself but these are very good memories that I never want to lose. We moved to Lurgashall in 1956 when I was three and my Mother was [...]
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