Chapters
- What was/is your relationship with your siblings? Has this changed?
- Were your parents strict?
- Remember your first car?
- What’s an achievement in your professional life that you’re proud of?
- What did you want to be growing up?
- Where did you meet your life partner?
- Did you have a nickname at school?
- What are some of the most important elections you voted in? What made them important to you?
- What country that you’ve travelled to has surprised you the most?
- What do you know about your family tree?
- What’s the first major news story or political event you remember living through as a child?
- What fascinated you as a child?
- Have you met any famous people?
- Do you have childhood friends you are still in touch with today?
- How did you rebel as a teenager?
- Do you have any notable ancestors?
- Tell us about a fun school trip you had as a child?
- Have you lived through any wars?
- Was your llife ever in danger?
- Did you go to any youth groups or summer camps?
- What’s the earliest birthday party you remember?
- Did you ever run away from home?
- How did your parents choose your name and does it have any special meaning?
- What are your memories of university/college?
- What do you remember about your family home?
- When did you first fall in love?
- What pieces of wisdom did your grandparents pass on to you?
- Where and when was your first date?
- Describe your father and write one favourite memory about him.
- Have you ever experienced a supernatural event?
- Where are your parents/grandparents from? Do they speak any other languages?
- Who was your favourite teacher and why?
- Do you remember your first job interview?
- What are your memories of primary school?
- Write about one of your happiest childhood memories?
- Describe your mother and write about one favourite memory with her.
- If you could give your younger self advice, what would it be?
- What is your earliest memory?
- Is there anything in life that has made your faith stronger? Or weaker?
- What family values were you brought up with?
- What was the most profound spiritual moment of your life?
- Did you have any serious accidents as a child?
- In your experience what makes a happy family?
- What was your first job?
- What are you most grateful to your parents for?
- How has being a parent changed you?
- What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
Your story – Heather Scott
Write about one of your happiest childhood memories?
My whole childhood was a relativly happy time. I lived in a very small village or hamlet in South Wales in the 1950’s/1960’s where everyone knew everyone else and there were no great worries for a child, no social media or internet only television (but not 24/7), or newspapers/magazines so very little unpleasantness came our way, my life was spent playing in fields or playing cricket or football on the village green with the boys as there were no girls my age. But some of my happiest times were when my parents took my sister and me away on holiday. My father worked on a farm and had very little time off, only one day a week, not necessarily at weekends, and usually those days off were spent working on my grandfathers farm, so holidays were very few and far between, also a farm worker was not a very well paid job back then, but we did have a few short holidays as a family. The first one was in a caravan in Porthcawl but I really do not recall that one, only what I have been told, as I was only about 19 months old, but we had two others, one to Southsea and one to Western Super Mare. I probably get both of them muddled up but things that I remember are staying in a bed and breakfast and having to go out after breakfast; having a ride on the donkeys on the beach; my dad having to buy a pair of swimming trunks because it was too hot to sit on the beach in long trousers, he was used to working outside in the very hot weather but that year it was extremely hot; Sue and I having our photograph taken holding a parrot, I wasn’t too keen on holding it as it kept pecking my hair but Sue , as usual, was all for it even though it was pecking her shirt; but the best part for me was when my mum won my teddy bear, she played a couple of games of bingo at the fair and for one of her prizes she choose a blue and grey teddy (I think I choose him), I can’t remember what her other prize was that was probably for Sue, she already had a teddy bear, our grandparents gave her one when she was born. That teddy,which I called Sooty, went everywhere with me even on Brownie pack Holiday where my Brown Owls dog took a liking to him, he was never the same again, but I still have him.