SLIDE 0618
This next box of slides actually has a label and is rather promisingly entitled "Christmas 1974, etc" which does at least imply that it might contain photographs of family gatherings, and more opportunities for this blog's author to humiliate himself for your amusement once again by revealing more pictures from his youth, this time taken when he was an excitable and enthusiastic ten-year-old.
If you come to mock, you will not be disappointed.
But not today though, not today.
Today's disappointments are of quite a different hue.
The order is all over the place, you understand, so we have to begin with this single and rather unspectacular image of a poinsettia in a bowl on a serving trolley.
That serving trolley had a pretty long life if truth be told, only finally vanishing after we cleared out my mother's flat after her death in 2013.
I suspect that the plant was long gone before any of that happened, of course.
I suspect that the plant was long gone before any of that happened, of course.
