The smell of the art paint and the paste. There was lots of
art at Blythwood.
School assemblies, especially at Christmas
Miss Cressman keeping the girls in the Girls' yard (the south
half) and the boys in the Boys' yard (the north half). There
was no mixing when she was on duty!
Learning to kick a soccer ball properly from Mr. Phillips
The red grapes growing at the house at Fidelia and Strathgowan Crescent, right up against an old log fence like you see in depression-era films
Yes! I remember seeing frogs on the way to school
Hanging upside down by my knees on the old monkey bars -- the only apparatus in the playground at the time!
wiping out on my CCM bike on the gravel on Glenallan
pulling my first loose tooth out on Strathgowan Crescent and skipping the rest of the way home. It was so ready to come out it didn't bleed!
staying late at school to watch the last game of the '72 series in Miss Skabernicky's class
birthday parties at Jenny Hall's (money cake), Christine Lay's (her dad had a light to take movies indoors), Sarah Haberer's (her mum's treasure hunt with the strings webbed all over the yard), Lisa Lambert's (the brown bags with props so we could put on skits in teams) and Libby Cameron's (riding in her parents' station wagon to the old Granite Club to go bowling). Oh and Leslie Dennis' Halloween birthday parties because that's when her birthday is.
