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When I was very young my Grandma Dolly would hand make toys for me, they were the best toys every and I loved them so much. These toys were so dearly loved by me. As I grew older and Grandma Dolly was no longer with us I would spend the Christmas holidays with my eldest sister and her husband and 2 daughters, who were more like my 2 little sisters. We had fab times together all 5 of us.

When I left home and moved to Guernsey I would spend my Christmas’s with my 2nd adopted family, my ultimate best mate Sally Carmichael would make sure I was adequately fed and boozed up and there was always a place set for me. She once bought me a massive frog because I liked frogs, it was huge, as time went by, settled with babies I would get interesting creations made from egg boxes and glitter which I still have 20 years on.

Skip by the skint years where I received “functional” presents like pans and a bin once. Now that things are better financially I get presents for me, like shoes and bubble bath (I LOVE BUBBLE BATH) a few years ago I got a car because my old one had blown up on the motorway which is still running fine and I still love it to bits. So all in all over the years I have had a mixed bunch of various presents all special in their own way depending on circumstances. I loved the glittery egg boxes the same as I loved the car.


Jo Donaldson

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