We didn't have a radio or TV at the lock house, but Mother used to read or make up stories for us every night. She really should have written her stories down, because they were really good. She was also a very good artist. I wish we still had the cartoons and the animals she used to draw.
I didn't always understand what she was talking about. One day we were walking by the school and she said, "when you start school I don't want you playing hookie". I had no idea what she meant by that. I imagined a bunch of kids playing around with fish hooks.
I heard her say many times how good tomato pies were, that was the name for pizza in those days. They didn't sound too appetising to me, I could not see how you could make a tomato taste good. Well one night we went in to Bristol to the Italian market and got one. I was hooked from then on, it didn't taste like tomatoes at all.
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