Page 16 - It's a Rum Life Book One "In the Beginning 1947 to 1960"

CHAPTER 2
1949 THE FAMILY GROWS
A SISTER
My sister was born in 1949 and quickly developed
poliomyelitis. Very serious and life threatening in those days, she
was lucky to survive.
She was even luckier to survive my assault with bow and
arrow on her pram. The bow and arrows had been made with
privet hedging and by vivid imagination as a Red Indian needed
something to attack. The pram in the garden was just like those
wagon trains.
(Picture of THE pram with
me and Grandmother at 22
BGA.)

After some arrows were
found inside the pram together
with scratches on my sister’s
face I could not sit down for
days! She and I seemed to have
a permanent hate campaign
between us largely brought
about by her targeting my
“dinky” toys. Managing to walk
all over them with the strong
boots she needed to help her
recover from the illness.
Consequently bending the axles, she then seemed to take great
delight in removing all the tyres.

FIRST HOLIDAY
Father and mother made friends easily and in these times
without ‘home entertainment’, adults were often ‘out and

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