Dear Editor – Memories – Glaswegian Version
First Memory
- When I was 2½ I waited to hear my big treat of the day, ‘Listen with Mother’ from 10.45am to 11am on 06/02/1952, but it was all about the blooming death of the King. No song and no story – boo!
- Boiled egg mashed up in a cup with salt and a knob of butter. My mouth still waters at the thought.
School Days
- That ‘scary’ boxer dog on the walk home from school.
- June birthday parties in the garden.
- Permanently cold legs as trousers weren’t permitted at school.
- Irene clutching her lunch time bag of crisps squeezed at the neck lest someone pinched one.
- Those queasy Sunday afternoon ‘runs’ in the car to see the countryside. I would rather have stayed home and watched back and white films with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
- Proudly sitting in the car while my Daddy (a GP) made house calls (remember them?).
Teens
- My younger brother being sent upstairs while my parents explained ‘periods’ to me.
- Travelling to a holiday at Innellan, down the Clyde on the paddle steamer ‘Waverley’.
- Bobbing for apples and sooty baked potatoes with fireworks and a bonfire in the garden.
- Andy Stewart and the ‘White Heather Club’ on Hogmanay with shortbread and black bun – lots of tartan skirts swirling.
- Desperately trying to ‘get a tan’ in the playground – fat chance!
Dr Miriam A Wohl
Macmillan Coffee Morning – Nov ’25
