ABSTRACT
Home Life 1950-66 Childhood shoes Clarks sandals with the toes cut out for extra growth, jellies and wellies. Childhood outfits Aertex shirts, shorts and jumpers. Dresses made by my mother, worn under sufferance. Selected childhood experiences • Adopting my baby nickname ‘Bobby’ permanently when I realised that a boy’s name was more fitting with my personal sense of status. • Putting on shows on the landing upstairs with the small, select (but paying) audience sitting at the bottom looking up at us – an inversion of the traditional theatrical ‘raked seating’. • Teaching our dachshund Rudi (who thought he was a wolfhound) to jump special dachshund gymkhana courses and sing duets with me. • Sitting next to my father every Sunday in church and absorbing his intense peace, faith and love. Teenage shoes Flip-flops, patent leather sling-backs. Teenage outfits Corduroy jeans and jumpers, snazzy dresses and coats
made from Butterick patterns. Selected teenage experiences • Being the only female member of the Bromley branch of the Dusty Springfield Fan Club. • Protesting against golf etiquette by playing in bare feet.
