OTHER NOTES:

apart from WHIPSNADE ZOO that is....and A.L. showing me some video footage...i do not know who took it....all i know is that it was a 'school trip' from all saints, blackheath.....richard kent and his friends - as well as my brother humphrey were on the coach....parents were also allowed but not many had decided to bother....but my swiss grandmother had decided that she wanted to go, for no apparent reason...but then she had always liked visiting that zoo/fairground beginning with a 'C'...what was it called now? something like CHESTERfield....CHESSINGTON ZOO - that was it...

Anyway, A.L. was to put up a photo of WHIPSNADE ZOO - as the last search upon 'my name' on google images - yesterday....i wondered why, yesterday morning...and then remembered, last night....

it was all about my swiss grandmother having no money in her purse at all, for rides...apart from a few coppers...she loved watching the PEEPSHOWS for some reason...those old-fashioned entertainment 'puppet theatres'...where you put a penny in and the whole 'theatre set' would come to life....sonia had been right about her, she had never grown up...she was still 'a child in her head'...

so what happened next? well RICHARD KENT had a roll of notes....and a crowd of little boys around him...he was to buy them all chips for lunch - from a kiosk...i was really hungry - no money....and asked him if he would buy me some too...he thought about it...and this is what had made A.L laugh so much....he replied "would you go out with me?" i had no idea what that meant...about 8 years old or younger....and so answered 'what do you mean 'out'? we are 'out' - in the outside...the open'....he explained 'will you be my girlfriend?'....after he had bought the chips...and i had eaten a couple i replied that i would be his girlfriend  'but only for the day'...he then tried to kiss me...well greasy lips covered in salt and vinegar....i was horrified....threw my chips in the bin and ran off howling....to sit in a field on my own...kent appeared to be more concerned about the waste of chips and told his mates...they wondered if they were worth retrieving but then thought 'not'....so who was filming all of this, then?

anyway, A.L. was to say to me that what she had found funniest about all of this...was that before i had run off...i had shouted at him "YOU CAN'T BUY ME WITH CHIPS!"

Oh and i am forgetting the little boy with dark hair - i didn't know who he was...but he was with that gang of boys....and a midget....i can remember him running at me, for no reason at all...trying to kick me....so i picked him up and he was still trying to kick me....i then put him down and put my hand on his head to prevent him from running at me, like a little bullock...what was going on, that day?

in retrospect - it might have been little gill....who knows?