Am revisiting the Mondo Beyondo class. And so am thinking today about what simple, grand or silly thing I wanted to do when I was ten.
Let me think. I was living in Suffolk, and I was probably bestest friends with Zog (as she was called at the time) I think I actually had diaries. Mainly I documented what sweets I bought and bizarrely, how much they cost. Hmm, I was a budgeteer even then! HA!. I am recalling stuff like wanting to live in a gypsy caravan or some sort of hobbit like burrow dwelling. Or a thatched cottage called Bumble Bee cottage. It definately had patchwork quilts and deep pillows and bunks, whatever it was. It was small and wooden and very cosy. Not sure if I was beyond the Flower Fairies or not at 10. Maybe not. I think i was building fairy villages out of big leaves in the garden. Probably deep into Laura Ingalls Wilder and notions of pioneer life. Did I make radio shows when I was 10? I think I did. Some still exist on cassettes. My little squeaky voice introducing songs and reading plays or staging some heist of hte recording studio. I don't remember ever thinking about what I would be when I was grown up. Oh, hang on I think I wanted to have written the Wombles and have my book made into a TV show. I dreamt of seeing ABBA live in concert. I wanted to own Snoopy paraphanalia and yellow things (I recall seeing a yellow transistor radio that was particularly awesome at the time. It might even have been shaped like a banana. So essentially I wanted to live a pioneer life with lots of patchwork, with sweets, snoopy stuff and bright yellow plastic gadgets. And I would write childrens books that got made into TV shows.
What about you?
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Astronaut, I even wrote to NASA. Still waiting for answer actually. I also considered deep sea diver but have tried scuba twice and was overwhelmed with claustrophobia. I am going to have another go on holiday this year but sadly the astronaut thing is probably behind me now. :(
Adventure was always my thing, so obvious I would end up an accountant!
accountant for NASA? bet they need one! have to say, that though I love adventure, I would never ever like to leave the planet like that. one step too far for this lady!
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