...walking through the beautiful big park on the way home from school with my Nan!  (She always picked me up and walked home with me -  'cause Mum worked!) It was the "long" way to go home but she knew I loved to see the beautiful reddish coloured squirrells that were so tame and came right up to us - good memories...... :-)

was thinking today,   and smiling,   when i was at state school,  i used to pass a house which had a big english sheepdog , which always sat on the steps,  i always stopped and talked to it,    sometimes id get the dog to follow me to school,   when we had to stand in line before class,   the teacher would ask whos dog it was,  i used to say i knew where it lived,  and the teacher used to make me take it home,   GOT out of a lot of lessons with that dog,    laugh about it now,  no wonder i was a dunce,   was always away wiyj the dog,lol lol, 

Mulberry pies! Mum had a friend with a big mulberry tree in her backyard and she would make a love warm mulberry pie and we would have a slice with vanilla ice cream.

And the ice cream van, I think he came on a Sunday. We would get 15 cents each from Mum. We would get her the vanilla ice cream heart covered with chocolate that cost the whole 15 cents but we kids wanted as much as possible so we got three ice blocks at 5 cents each. In those days you could go into the corner store and get a small paperbag of lollies for 2 cents!

Our neighbour had a mulberry tree and I remember climbing it and coming home covered from head to foot in the juice.