Posted by: ireneintheworld on: September 11, 2008
I seem to have lost my early years at school and only retain the bad memories – much what I have done with my grandmother The Dragon. I remember being excited at the thought of going to school and my brother being so impatient that he often disappeared from the house only to be [...]
Posted by: ireneintheworld on: September 1, 2008
‘Help, help! Teddy, I’ve won the bingo!’ My mother would wake up the whole street two or three times a year. We’d get a quick glance at all the prizes and the handful of paper money waving through her laughter before we were pushed back into our little cupboard bed; it was folded away [...]
Posted by: ireneintheworld on: July 30, 2008
There are very few photographs of my early childhood or my parents, and some of them have been lost in the fire or the skip fiasco last year. So my young mother only appears with friends that are long-gone, like my Godmother, holding me in the post below – I don’t remember her at [...]
