My first LIVE online gig for nearly two years. Grab it, quick!
An 800 word short on the importance of bikes for children's independent mobility and a bit of chopper envy.
"I kept saying to him, ‘Don’t let go, don’t let go!’ and he replied repeatedly, I won’t!’ with me never realising at the key moment that his replies were getting fainter and fainter."
A biographical short on one of my most prized possessions and why I've hold of it for so long.
"The vast majority of our most precious childhood items tend not to survive into adulthood, though, because the most important things to us at the time tended to be rather simple and ephemeral."
A biographical short on running away from home
"I remember walking down the long never-ending street that granny lived on being not upset but very angry. Then, my dad suddenly appeared alongside driving our old ex-army Moggie 1000 very slowly, his head sticking out the open window."
850 words about my first day at school.
a \‘shȯrt-rēd’\ piece
"I have a vision of standing beside the kind of sand and water tray that would not out be out of place in any early year’s centre today and pretty much staying there not daring to move."
a \'shȯrt-rēd'\ piece
500 words about childhood family rituals and oddities and the importance they place in making us 'family'.
What family rituals can you remember? What little oddities do you still have in your family?
