The life and times of my grandmother Lily. The years she lived through are real enough but I have wrapped her life in an author's vivid imagination.

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Yep that is me playing cricket with my childhood pet Mac.

A few years later on my 9th birthday I started a revolution in my junior school. Only girls were taught to read and play music. I wanted to learn but I was a boy.

Initially my friends thought I was a sissy but as momentum gathered the timetable was changed to make music uni-sex. You can read the full story in my schoolboy autobiography - Things Were Different In My Day.