Moving to Marlborough Road
Two Little Girls Chapter 7
At weekends and during holidays, Daddy and Teresa laboured on the house in Marlborough Road. Sharon and I went to Granny’s while they worked. Granny had an enormous garden filled with sweet peas, gooseberry bushes, sunflowers, runner beans, and much more. We played for hours chasing butterflies, pouncing on the cats, and doing somersaults, handstands, and cartwheels.
One of the four rooms in the new loft extension bedroom with woodchip paper and painted it white. The new bathroom with orange spiky painted orange walls. Daddy got a new workroom with a wooden workbench and vice, and a darkroom with some photography equipment. Shaz stayed downstairs on the first floor in our old shared room. It was the same floor where Teresa and Daddy slept.
There was another extension into the back garden, built where the old kitchen and outhouse had been. Where the monster spiders lived in the dark behind the chain. This was our new dining room. French doors led to three big steps down to the back garden, which I could walk across in ten steps.
Beyond the garden was the field. The field was full of water in the winter and full of cars in the summer. Often visitors parked in the field would drink tea from Thermos flasks and eat their sandwiches from Tupperware while sitting on deckchairs…
