Jamie has downloaded something from the internet called Dad, I Want to Hear Your Story! It's from the US of course and is a series of questions designed to tease out memories and thoughts from the past. There are several sections so it's pretty detailed. I reminded him that I had already written a memoir but this new outline covers a bit more ground.
The first section is called It's Your Birthday and has question like 'Were you named after a relative or someone of significance? and What is your earliest childhood memory? The first one is easy: I was named after my father and all of the other John Christies who went before me, in an unbroken line of at least nine generations.
And the earliest childhood memory? Well, there are a few: going to the outside toilet at night, at the back of the tenement building in Clark Street, scabbling around on the ground for a piece of stick to poke in the hole to lift the latch of the toilet door, or the day the girl upstairs brought a message from the headmaster at the local school that I could start the next morning. That would have been in September, 1947.
The problem with the program is that it is from the US with questions like 'Did you get an allowance? and What was your favourite candy?. I'll just have to ignore those.
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