English Schoolboy Memories Punctuation Free
Short trousers can’t remember if ever new
Pockets a handkerchief no money never any need
School dinners free milk walking two miles there and back
Saturdays a sixpence mint imperials aniseed balls in their little box
Sundays Dad at home football train set toy soldiers mother raising eyebrows
Early sixties Boxing Day snow began long month later would it ever go away
Long trousers become necessity Wellington boots drift walking into school
That summer turned eleven grammar school didn’t make it yet in other ways…
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Nice! The mother’s raised eyebrows rang a bell and made my smile. 🙂
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I can see her, by the fire, knitting school jumpers, while Dad, my younger brother and me kept a respectful distance causing mayhem in our virtual play world … I just know I have to write this story…
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Yes! Love this.
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Thanks Pam … there will be more!
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