We slept with Christmas stockings at the foot of our beds, before a feast the next day and the Queen’s speech. They were days both spiritual and homely
Raymond Antrobus with his sister, mother and grandmother.Eve, my mother would drive my sister and me from Hackney in east London to Hertfordshire. We’d arrive to an electric fire-heated house that smelled of toasted bread and radiated electric blankets. Grandma greeting us at the door, the Christmas lights blinking on the tree, Coco, her long-haired sausage dog wagging her tail at our shins. Barbara Antrobus was the quintessential English grandmother.
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