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
What was/is your relationship with your siblings? Has this changed?
I only have one sibling, my sister Sue. Sue is two and a half years older than me and I would say that as children we got along to a certain degree but I would not say that we were close friends. I have a small scar on the underneath of my chin which is from her pushing me off the sofa in jealousy and me hitting the fire grate, cutting my chin in the process.
In a small village, such as ours was, as young children most of the village children played together but as we got older we tended to have individual friends. A family with two children lived next door to us, the girl, Avril and Sue were sort of friends and very often instead of including me, as my mum thought, I would be dumped with her younger brother so subsequently we became friends.There was another family across the village green of a girl and two younger brothers,Sue was friendly with the girl and I became friends with the brothers. We did do some things together but Sue did have a tendency to be bossy something she continued into adulthood, and not just with me.
We became closer when we became adults, although probably not initially as I remember, when I left home to join the RAF I was only able to take a few things with me, Sue went through my things that were left behind, we shared a bedroom in the farm house as there were only two, and removed most of what I had left and put them down in one of the farm sheds and persuaded my mother that the clothes I had left I didn’t want so to give them away. We probably became closer after we had children and certainly much closer after our parents died.