Task 2: Remember back to when you were a child? Was there a present that you desperately wanted that was the “hot” present of the year that you either did or did not receive? What is a gift that you remember receiving when you were 8 to 12 years old and why has it stuck in your memory so clearly?
The only gifts I really cared about at age 8 to 12 were horse-related — my riding outfit (beige jodhpurs, black boots — no leather, though –, black hat and crop), as well as (and equally importantly) the brushes, curry comb, hoof pick and other grooming equipment I took to the stable every single time; I think I enjoyed being in the horses’ stalls, grooming and caring for them, at least as much as actually riding them; there was an intimacy to those moments in the stall that let you get to know the horses (and vice versa) which riding them alone could never have provided.
Unfortunately, no photos from that time survive (they were all destroyed in the flood that was allowed to be visited upon the place where I had stored most of my belongings while living in the U.S.) … so here’s me a few years earlier, when dolls (complete with pram), a doll house, a mouth organ, and a blackboard with colored chalks were my world and my heart’s sole desire:
I love it! I would have done the same thing. You do have quite the variety and what fun to pick and choose from your own collection.
That was part of the idea, of course … though without Brexit, those orders would have been a lot smaller!
Now that’s a tea party!🍵🧝🏽🙂 Which flavor is your favorite?
Spur of the moment, that’s why I have so many different ones! 🙂