Here are 11 childhood cruelties I have no intention of inflicting on my own offspring: ★ Polo neck skivvies ★ Hogget chops ★ Charley Pride on the car stereo ★ Passive pipe smoking (thanks Dad) ★ Pudding bowl haircuts (thanks Mum) ★ A wooden spoon to the patootie ★ Junket ★ Nuddy bathtime photos for teenage humiliation ★ Taking a dunny spade deep into the bush to defecate in a hole of their own making on tramping trips ★ The Sunlight Soap solution to swearing ★ Weet-Bix for breakfast Give me porridge, scrambled eggs, plum jam on toast, hot coffee and a cinnamon scroll or a bowl of last night's leftovers, but please don't make me eat Weet-Bix again. Cold and crunchy, warm and soggy or...
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