just another morning here

based on this poem, using a format found here, first seen on Making it Up.

I am from brown velour sofas, Doctor Who, a Commodore 64 and cassette tapes.

I am from the Old Bakery, the house in the village square where the mobile library used to stop every week, so we always took the librarians cups of tea after school on a Thursday afternoon.

I am from the brambles growing down the lane, and the tree hanging over the stream where we used to cross it and paddle in it. And in the summer, from the woods where we played hide and seek to the soundtrack of trains going past at the bottom of the garden. From lavendar, raspberries, and all sorts of flowers, mixed with the scent of chlorine from the swimming pool.

I am from long drawn out cups of coffee on Christmas morning, and always being right. From Colgate Palmolive, from hand made and embroidered doll’s clothes, Great Danes, and tomato plants.

From ‘sorry means I won’t do it again’, and ‘that’s understandable but inexcusable’.

I am from Cote Baptist Chapel, from the Charismatic movement in the seventies. From Bible verses memorised, from a Christian school, and Psalty the singing songbook. From a strong heritage of faith and my own personal experience of Jesus.

I’m from Oxford, yet a mixture of Liverpool, Wales, France and Belgium thrown in as well. From croissants-aux-amandes, framboisines, baked ham with a crust around it, and toast with cheese and marmite.

From the time the field flooded and froze over in the village, and we all went skating on it, two of us in ice skates and the rest in wellies. From working out exactly how to play Spider and Fly on the morning my sister was born. From excitedly getting up in the early hours of the morning to go on holiday.

I am from a trunk in a garage, boxes that haven’t been opened in 20 years.

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