Mum had always nagged me approximately schoolwork and tests. But then she bought me an instant camera,and the whole picture changedWhen I was eight, I knew everything. I mean I’d read all the Enid Blyton books, and been on a school trip to Southport,and had a pen pal in France. I had seen it all. I also thought my mum was really boring. All she did was buy me books, pick up me private tutors, or design me do verbal reasoning tests,and order me that I was going to be a doctor. And that being a doctor was the only profession in the world; anyone who wasnt a doctor had never even heard of the word “profession”. How dull.
So when I was eight, it came as a huge surprise when she bought me a camera. I was disappointed. I wanted a space hopper like my friends, and something fun that I could bounce around on. Not a boring camera.
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Source: theguardian.com