


It’s all very well living in a large old house, but it’s a dreadful task to keep it clean and warm! So I was very well dressed! We bought a relatively modern house in the country, and my mother was blissfully happy. My mother was a sample machinist that is, she worked with designers on the prototypes (models or samples) of garments. Then, when the council bought the house from us to build a road, my grandfather retired and my father went and worked for the Post Office. It was built on the site of the old Roman cemetery, and the land had been constantly inhabited, being in the centre of town.

It was an old house and most definitely haunted, but I didn’t find out until I left that my great uncle had hung himself in the living room! But I think our ghost might have been older than that. I was born in Leicester, England, and lived in our cobbler’s shop with my parents and sister.
