novelxo Chapter 5: When I was a Child I Though as a Child
As a baby I was startled by an elephant. Apparently I had stared up from my pushchair, at the various parts of the zoo bound pachyderm. Before realizing the whole was greater than the parts, and so I gave a start at this revelation. I like to think this introduction to the larger than life nature of the world, stood me in good stead. So when I was left as a toddler in the charge of my farther on a beach of a Spanish island. I didn’t lose my head, when I wandered off with Bonny. My teddy bear won for being the bonniest baby at Butlins holiday camp.
So as my dad snoozed on, I set off to be found by a Spanish woman. She took me to a bar for collecting, which I duly was by presumably frantic parents. I have no real recollection of the above events, just the words of my mother and a few photos in the family album. I never went aboard again as a child, that would only occur when I had become a young adult, and not in the care of doting patents.
When I left home to study engineering up north in Sheffield, my mother had had enough of my father’s whimsical attitude towards life, and moved out too. Then when my father too had to leave the house and travel north due to ill health, I helped clear the odds and ends out from its shell. Bonny went in to the skip with all the other long forgotten childhood toys. You can only hold on for so long to the past.