My brother shouted down from the roof of the shed. “Chuck the drainpipe up to me.” We’d devised a game where he’d throw a marble (or some kind of ball, the memories are sketchy) through a piece of drainpipe from the top of the roof and I’d stand on the ground and try and catchContinue reading “A year in moments #1 – the drainpipe and the eyebrow”
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Running away
When I was a kid I was captivated with running away. Not in the traditional sense to get away from your family and hating your life, no no (I liked my life), more to ‘go on an adventure’. I harboured dreams of having a bag packed and heading out into the unknown. I even persuadedContinue reading “Running away”
A year in people #40 – Vic Makins
We were about 15. Vic and I were in different sets for our GCSE subjects so we decided to write messages to each other in a [pink] notebook and pass it to each other in between classes (because of course this was in the days before mobile phones). The messages were random teenage chit chat,Continue reading “A year in people #40 – Vic Makins”
A year in people #3 – TR
There was a boy. Let’s call him TR. We were 13, or maybe 12. That awkward age where someone asks someone else to be their boyfriend/girlfriend and that’s it, you’re Going Out. Which at that age (back in my day), consisted of nothing more but awkward (if not silent) conversation, hanging out together with theContinue reading “A year in people #3 – TR”
The Paps Life 