The Queen is here

And a Giant is here

And I am here

frightened

and I am in the Queens house

and I am Big

Wrote a little blonde me aged 5 – about 7 months after I had visited Buckingham Palace on my 5th Birthday.

The Queen featured 4 times in my early writing

She was featured more times than any other person, except for my sister and parents.

I wrote about going to the Queens house

The Queen came with me to my friend Lois’s house too

and the sun shone and there was a rainbow

and the sky is blue

and I had lots to say and describe

and it looked like this:

I discovered my childhood writings last year, my first primary school writing book, after remembering a box of items my late grandmother has set aside for me, or my aunts had given me to look through. This is where my writing history began. Its also a psychologists dream. What did little James actually write, aged 5?

I found that I wrote about the Queen, I wrote about rainbows, and I wrote about having fun at other peoples houses. I wrote about going to the Queens house.

I wrote about feeling big at the Queens house. Where there was a giant.

Today too as write this aged 44, the sky is also blue and it is raining and there is a rainbow.

RIP Our Queen, My Queen, the person who made me feel safe from the giants, who made me feel big.

And not just me.

Thank you.