Sarah joined me at Queen Anne’s the following year and I was pleased for my friends to see my sister at school. They thought she looked very small and sweet. Instead of having cracks, we could now potentially become cracks ourselves. Although I wanted the ego boost of someone being cracked on me, I also [...]
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Now that we were based in the South of England, we saw Mum much more regularly than when we were at the Sneep. We would spend a week or so with Dad in London and then go to Mum’s for a couple of weeks in the middle. At fifteen I still did not have a [...] I had an affectionate relationship with my mother and we talked easily together, mainly about her family and experiences in life. I suppose she wanted us to grow up knowing something of the world outside public school but also for us to appreciate where she had come from. Mum told me about a teenage relative [...] At fifteen it was expected that Jo would make her own way in the world. However she had nowhere to live so for a time she worked as a nanny. Jo explained: “I left the hut three months from my fifteenth birthday in 1953 because Bet left with the three smallest babies and told my [...] During most of our years at the Sneep Dad would drive us to Mum’s house and fetch us in his car. Occasionally Mum would bring us up to London by bus and train. I remember one trip because Mum asked me to go to the toilet when the conductor came, as she had not bought [...] Mum had said slightly mysteriously that she wanted me to discover by myself why she divorced Dad. Gradually I became more certain that I was right but I was still nervous of breaking the silence. I had started to question my father’s sexuality. Apart from his 6-year marriage to my mother, he had always been [...] We were now the senior girls in the house and referred to as ‘The Study’. Barley had been made head of house, Jenny vice and Ali head of games. I volunteered to be charity representative for the house but then immediately went into a panic and depression over the responsibility. We were now all prefects [...] In the summer of 1977, after I left QAS we travelled up to Dad’s flat and prepared for our holiday in Italy. Alan was coming with us. For Dad, it was a trip down memory lane to return to where he had spent his honeymoon with Mum. We had standby tickets so the holiday started [...] By the middle of June I had finished my exams and I thought that it would be interesting to spend my summer in France. Dad had always been admiring of the ability to speak languages so it was natural for me to aspire to speak French well. I did not have any contacts in France [...] On my return to the UK I went to the careers advisory service in Basingstoke. After taking some tests I was told that I would be well suited to a career as a pharmacist or as an optician. My instincts told me that I was more ambitious for my career. Although I had failed to [...] |
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