![]() ![]() Once he even swapped my train set for a motorbike. My mother never bad-mouthed him, other than to say he liked motorbikes more than he liked us, which was true. She would have liked to have manipulated me, but I learned to hold my ground.ĭad left when I was four. I had a strong sense of responsibility towards her, and I didn’t mind it. I was supposed to be my mother’s father – it was a very peculiar thing. My mother drove the policeman down the path saying, “Weren’t you ever a boy? Why are you wasting your time coming round here?” She was just tremendous and would defend me enormously. I remember once as a child I put a dead rat in someone’s drain and the police were called. She was a fierce defender of people’s individualism. ![]() My mother believed strongly in freedom, and her mother did too. ![]()
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