Happy Days
A Memory of Needham Market.
this is only one of many wonderful memories i went to school in needham market the junior school and lived at darmsden we were picked up and taken to school by a mini bus we lived in three places in darmsden the 2nd place was right next door to a strawberry field one of many owned by tarston farms further up our road .When it was time for picking strawberrys a lot of my friends were bought up in a lorry and i was put in charge to make sure they picked properly and didnt mess about i was the first one picking and the last one to finish i was as brown as a berry and loved it . one day my mum came over and and said shhs she then laid this very real looking grass snake amongst the strawberrys well you should have seen my mates run they screamed with laughter when they saw what it was. mum used to litTereally drag me of i loved it and i earnt quite a bit pocket money i was allowed to pick the special strawberrys that were sent to the tiptree jam factory my friend susan used to stay with us she suffered with hayfever funny though after staying with us for a week she never had it any more.she would beg my dad to do the gorilla he would come up the stairs on all fours and making sounds like a gorilla and then jump from one bed to another thankgoodness they were strong iron beds.my brother and myself were christened in darmsden church we moved from darmsden in 1973 happy days,
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