Life entries from the 1960s

I do not remember Peter asking whether I would be staying. I was a baby, so my contribution to the record is limited.

I know I was born on a Friday because the date on my birth certificate works out that way. Mum also said Friday, although she gave me two different times over the years and once moved the whole thing into the afternoon. I have kept the morning version because that was the one she used most often.

My earliest memory may not be mine.

We visited Nan Wells on Sundays often enough for the routine to feel fixed, though I cannot say whether it was every week.

Denise lived two doors down and knew the street already. This gave her authority.

We moved to Portchester in August 1969, a few weeks before my seventh birthday and before I started at Castle Lane Junior School.

Mum walked me to Castle Lane on my first morning. Denise came with us and behaved as though she were showing two visitors round.