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| Memories I have some very early memories, which would be difficult to believe if they had not been corroborated by members of my family. My earliest memory is of being in a punt on the River Thames at Oxford as a baby in arms and we'll take it into the water and pour down beneath the surface. My memory is of looking up through the water and seeing the sun shining through the whirlpool above. This glorious memory stayed with me throughout most of my life until one day I asked my uncle whether he remembered when we were swimming in the River Thames and he pulling me beneath surface of the water. He told me that he had not so but that I had fallen into the water and was drowning. He had dived into the water to rescue me. For those who aren't familiar with the craft a punt is a rectangular flat-bottomed boat that is propelled by using a long stick pushed into the riverbed. My memories will be difficult to date if it were not for the fact that during my early days my family moved three times. These moves would have been times of stress and no doubt stuck in my memory. The photograph to the right, is of my sister and I. I would have been eight or nine years age at the time. My sister, Barbara, would have been about six. |
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