KEEPSAKES

Mum and Dad kept far more than we knew about at the time. We thought that packing up and moving the family around the country and the world every couple of years until they had their own house meant that they wouldn't have kept any early stuff, but they seem to have kept everything, including the curls from my first haircut.

And what was wrong with a good old luggage label instead of these new-fangled plastic barcoded bracelets?