I’ve put together some pages on different parts of my life – they can be read in any order.
From birth to aged 5
I was born in 1953, when things were somewhat different – this is the world I was born into. And then I started growing up.
What my parents got up to while I was growing up
In the 1950s, my father Eddie was struggling to make a living, but also was a Conservative councillor and met the Queen, indulged in film-making and …. escapology. Later on he was rather successful at local TV game shows.
Starting school
There were a lot of changes in ageing between being 5 and 7, in particular starting at Cyprus Terrace Infant School, learning to read and write and do (quite tricky) ‘sums’.
At home, changes included getting my own transport and going off on my own, the celebrated arrival of a television and obsessively watching cowboy series, the family buying a van and going to the seaside and on camping holidays, and Brian’s rabbit dying. All recorded in my school diary, illustrated with terrible artwork.