I walked out of Bambi aged about that. Not because it was stupid, just because it was sad. In fact, I had form for absenting myself from immersion in fiction I found stressful. At infant school, I wo… (View Post)

Beautifully put. I've another seam: childhood holidays, which up to the age of 5 were all on the Isle of Arran. Walking up to the hill after tea to put a stone on the cairn with my Dad, in match… (View Post)

Just Grandstand in general. I have a memory from infant school days of a late score announced between Manchester United and Manchester City, and for some time afterwards thinking they were the only t… (View Post)

I was born in 1975. I certainly had no memory of male Prime Ministers before Major and remember thinking the concept an musing oddity when it was pointed out to me aged about 7 that such things were … (View Post)

My father in law was adopted. We don't kniw anything about his genetic origins, but (based largely I think on ginger hair) there is a family belief that he is genetically Irish. So potentially m… (View Post)