Ann with Bubbles
Memory is a curious thing ...
Take the case of my budgies, Bubble and Squeak ( named by Dr Huppert!). The other day I spoke to Frances Heenan ( nee Purcell). We were both children in Ward 2 together yet neither of us remembers the other.
Except the budgies.
I tell her the budgies were mine. She is surprised. She says after I left it was her responsibility to look after them though she assures me that there was only one not two.
Anyway one day she didn't tie the string properly on the cage door .
And Bubbles flew away.
Frances apologises, half a century later, for the mishap.
" I am so sorry."
I am lost for words. I never ever expected to meet someone, even if only over the phone, who not only remembered my budgies but had actually been put in charge of them.
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