day 4 ~ your earliest memory

 

Let me just say right now I admit

that as a child I was a monster.

 

Even before I was out of nappies I was running away.

What child does this to their parents?

 

My poor mother was forever adding latches

to the doors to lock me in and had to constantly

have me in her sight as I would just take off.

 

The running joke saying in our family  is

"Where's Clare?"

 

This leads me to my earliest memory...

I was standing on the kitchen table in my grubby bare feet

being told very sternly by the local policeman

that I wasn't to run away again.

 

My latest adventure had been that I went to visit my dad

at work but I couldn't find him so I went to the beach.

I have no idea how long I had been gone or how I got

home but I do know that was definitely not my last escape.

 

Oh did I mention my father was a nurse at Long Bay Gaol?

Not really the place for a barefoot child to give her dad a surprise visit.

day 3 ~ changing tracks

 

 

~ a song that you hear that reminds you

 of a certain time in your life.

 

Every time I hear Rock around the Clock

it takes me back to the kitchen of our family home.

 

My father would turn this song up really , really loud

and we would all dance around like crazy!

I have 5 sisters and two brothers

so there was some wild dancing going on

and so much laughter!

 

Good times.

 

day 2 ~ a favourite movie

image from here 

 

This is a hard one for me because I'm

one of those really annoying people who say

"oh but the book was way better!"

in a very snotty, sanctimonious voice.

 

The movies I liked most was whatever I went

with my kids to see.

Going to the movies when you live in a country town

is a huge adventure.

 

We would talk about it for a few days before.

We would get up nice and early to prepare.

We would then begin the hour drive to the closest theatre.

 

If we were early enough there was time

to just sit in the foyer and people watch.

Yes we are creepy people watchers.

 

My kids would then wait for their brown paper bags.

 

Brown paper bags?

 

Whenever we went on a long car trip I would make up

brown paper bags with some lollies and pencils and paper

and sometimes a little toy like a kaleidoscope or a small puzzle.

I would do a little drawing and put their names on the bag

just like my mum did on our school lunch bags.

 

Anyway I did the same for our yearly movie trip

but it would just be a few lollies and juice

as we all loved to have the movie popcorn.

 

So while this post really has nothing to do with

my favourite movie it has something to do

with my favourite people , my kids.

 

 

 

 

Day 1. My day in 100 words.

image from here

 

It was a combination of too much coffee during the day

and too much tweeting at night that

led to my decision to join in with

 Claire (great name by the way)

blogging every day in May.

 

I haven't been much of a blogger lately so maybe

this would be the little push that was needed.

 

Claire has provided great prompts to help us along

and a lot of them are really, really interesting.

 

So for my first day I will share my day in 100 words.

 

It would be so embarrassing on my first day to run out .....