When I was growing up, my family always took camping trips. I remember one in particular. As a child,...
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When I was growing up in the 50s, a family lived above us who we were very close to....
My dad’s sister had two daughters, one six months older than me and the other three years older. The...
The following is a reader’s letter published in the UK women’s magazine Family Circle in 1977. My thanks go to Alan...
I was 10 and it was the start of the Christmas holidays. The weather was foul and I was...
I grew up in the 1950s, when Britain’s canal network was still a place of work rather than a...
One summer, when I was nine, I met my friend Jesse to play at her grandparents’ summer home, near...
When I was eight years old, I spent two nights at the house of my Betty, my favourite aunt....
My parents never spanked me when I was growing up. They often threatened to do it – but I...