![]() There were eleven pupils in my year, with funny last names like Bone and Strange and Gibbons. My family of six lived at the edge of the village, behind the flint schoolhouse adjacent to the primary school that my three siblings and I attended. I waded through fresh waters as the river rose anew from its barren bed each spring swung across the river on tyres attached to ropes on summer nights warmed my hands at autumn bonfires on golden evenings and rolled in deep snow banks in the winter. Mary Bourne-an English village of thatched roof cottages winding along the banks of the Bourne River with its swaying water weeds, frogspawn, and fluttering ducks-was a childhood filled with wonders. Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars."Ī CHILDHOOD IN St. ![]() ![]() "I would not creep along the coast, but steer ![]()
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