As often happens a sibling arrived. In fact I had two siblings, both girls. The first was born nearly 3 years after me, and sadly was stillborn. I’ll say more about her another day. Then my still here little sister arrived. I have no recollection of a pregnancy, I do recall being at the neighbours up the road awaiting the arrival of the taxi bringing mum, a baby, and my dad who was clutching a brown paper parcel. That was intriguing and I soon discovered it was for me. The contents were a train set, a simple oval of track with one point and a siding. There was one engine and 3 or 4 wagons. All in OO gauge Tri-ang Hornby if you want the details. Set up on the living room floor on the brown paper with the mains controller. It is reported I was completely hooked and could only be pursuaded to eat chips over the next 3 days. If you’re keeping up with the blog you’ll catch a theme here. So now we were four, and in time little sis became a playmate.
