When I was a child in a very Catholic home and a very Catholic school, everything was forbidden…lies were forbidden but I told them anyway and lied about that. In fact every rule was broken but I never worried about it because there was always confession where you were cleansed […]
SITTING IN WET KNICKERS AND WISHING
My first dip into the sea was a very long time ago, in a different country and what seems to me a different lifetime. I was in Standard One and the nuns took us on a trip to the seaside, to a place called Morib. They might as well have […]
CINDERELLAS ON A SATURDAY NIGHT
Saturday evenings used to be the high point of our week before we were visited upon by this blight. We slogged it out from Monday to Friday and at the end of it, we threw on our glad rags and went out on a spree with our friends, this other […]