When I Was Eight
In Grade 3, I was chosen to play the lead role in our musical, “Little Gypsy Gay” (In those days, ‘gay’ had a completely different meaning. Then it meant happy, bright and carefree. It was also a popular girls’ name.)
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When I Was Seven
During January, Mum took us to swimming lessons. I hated those lessons…
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When I Was Six (#2)
I was about six years old when Dad installed our new toilet. No more frightening runs out into the dark night (we would have eaten our carrots to help us see better, too) across the creepy expanse of the back yard to the little corrugated iron house in the corner, generally termed ‘the Dunny’.
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When I Was Six #1
Breaking God’s 8th Commandment When I was six, my Mum used to give me sixpence for pocket money- one penny for every year of my life. My older brother Kevin, got eight pence because he was eight. Neil and Alan were too little to get any just then.
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When I Was Five
She was beautiful, she was twenty-two and she shared my name! She had long dark hair and a beautiful warm smile. She sat on the little Sunday School chair while we sat at her feet listening to her tell us a story. Adrienne was my idol. I wanted to be just like her.
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When I Was Four
My Dad and I set off through the crowds of people at the Melrose Show. Being so little, I held his hand as we negotiated the bewildering maze of grown up legs…
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When I Was Three…
Dad stood at the top of the ladder in my bedroom, paintbrush in hand…
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When I Was Two
Mum bought a goat named Lily to give us milk. She was white with yellow eyes with elliptical pupils, and wobbly bits under her chin. She was joined by Snowdrop and Daisy and Buttercup…
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When I Was One
I was eighteen months old and had caught a little bug called scabies.
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