Elizabeth Day
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And one day my father drove home from work and he at the time drove a Mini Cooper.
And there in the passenger seat of that Mini was this bear with a seatbelt over his front.
And my dad had given me a bear.
He'd found a bear in a shop that he was just like, this is for you.
And I was so touched by it.
It's probably one of the best presents I've ever been given.
But I was specifically touched with the fact that the seatbelt had been there.
He'd taken the care.
And at that time, Thomas didn't have his waistcoat.
That was a later edition.
But I named this bear after my father, who is also called Thomas.
And the reason Thomas is so special to me is obviously his origin story.
But then a few months after I turned four, we actually moved from Epsom to the north of Ireland, where my father had got a job as a surgeon at Atna Galvin Hospital in Derry.
And at the time, that part of the world was quite a tough place to live.
It was at the height of the troubles.
And to be a little girl with an English accent was slightly strange.
And most people thought that I was part of a military family, which, of course, I wasn't.
And at primary school, that was fine.
I had a really nice experience.
But Thomas came with me through that.