The evening was by no means finished yet as my mum announced that on the way home she had to collect some papers from her friend Mrs Johnson. Now Mrs Johnson had two children; a boy Brian who was fourteen and a girl called Joan who was my age, played violin in the GHS orchestra and was sort of my girl friend. I thought nothing of it as I could sit in the car and wait while mum went into the house.

When we arrived all was well until to my horror Joan came out to the car to say hi! Fortunately mum had explained the situation to Joan and her mother so Joan wasn’t at all surprised to find her boy friend dressed in a girls school uniform! She asked me to come in and see her new violin bow so I climbed carefully out of the car and walked into the house. Here I met Mrs Johnson who gave me a hug and said that I made a gorgeous girl.