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A new home

Posted in Childhood, Memories on Mar 5th, 2011

Life in our new home was wonderful. A draught-free bedroom made bedtime something I actually looked forward to. Electricity meant that I could read in bed for a while until I was firmly told to go to sleep and the light was turned off. Not only did I now have a bath every night, I [...]

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On the move

Posted in Childhood, Memories on Feb 14th, 2011

Let’s get back to history and the continuing tale, the year moves on to 1962. My ninth birthday came and went with the usual celebrations both at home and at school. The year proved remarkably uneventful in most respects and little by little the worries over my health began to ease. During the summer holiday [...]

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Back to the story

Posted in Childhood, Illness on Jan 3rd, 2011

Windows 7 is go and I like it so let’s get back to the tale of woe that was my autumn of 1961. Well, I told the story of my little fight with pneumonia some time ago so I won’t go into those gory details again. Suffice it to say the bloody mindedness that came [...]

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Longest bus journey ever

Posted in Childhood, Illness on Nov 28th, 2010

Where were we? Oh, that’s right my wonderful best friend had just made it very clear to the Headmaster that he was quite capable of looking after one sick friend and getting him home safely. Mr Poole thought for a little bit and then decided that he could trust Rich to do the job. I’ve [...]

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A rather less good autumn

Posted in Childhood, Illness, School on Nov 19th, 2010

The new school year brought big changes. While it was great moving up to Top Class it was also scary because the Headmaster was now our teacher. Mr Poole was a nice man but he was the Headmaster and in the bottom drawer of his enormous desk lurked the dreaded slipper. While Mr Poole didn’t have a [...]

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A very good summer

Posted in Childhood, Cricket, Holidays, Summer on Nov 6th, 2010

Right, back to business. What else did 1961 hold in store for the little choirboy? The summer holiday was brilliant. Rich’s big brothers decided that it was time we were introduced to the mysteries of cricket. I fell in love with the game instantly and realised that, unlike football, this was a game I could [...]

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I didn’t like being beside the seaside…

Posted in Childhood, Choirboy, Seaside on Oct 25th, 2010

I discovered that there were perks to being a choirboy; ones that I’d never imagined. If we were asked to sing at a wedding, a funeral or any other extra service, we got paid. Us kids only got a shilling or so usually but heck, that was double what I got in pocket money. There [...]

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A choirboy’s tale continued

Posted in Childhood, Choirboy, Church on Oct 16th, 2010

My second appearance in the choir was a dismal affair. Not because I performed badly or anything like that but because it was Good Friday. In honour of the solemnity of the day the church took on the aspect of a funeral parlour and everybody was dressed in unrelieved black. The only white visible were [...]

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The choirboy’s tale

Posted in Childhood, Choirboy, Church on Oct 10th, 2010

My first appearance as an angelic choirboy went without a hitch. Let out of Sunday school a whole ten minutes early, I sprinted round the church to the vestry to don cassock and surplice. Once dressed I lined up with the other boys to be inspected by the Rector’s wife. Unruly hair was combed, finger nails [...]

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The debut of an angelic choirboy?

Posted in Childhood, Church, Singing on Oct 3rd, 2010

The next major event in the life of now bespectacled Malcolm was my eighth birthday. Of course every birthday was important, not least because I always got a card from Granddad in Cheshire with a ten shilling note inside and a card with a postal order from Nana and Granddad in Sidmouth. Being eight, however [...]

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