Jeremy Vine
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But now, obviously, as you get older, you long for the boring places because you see peace and quiet as being things that you want.
But at the time, it seemed to be just so grey and dreary.
When my kids look at my photos of my childhood in the 60s and 70s, and they say, oh, God, they're black and white.
The photos aren't black and white.
The whole world was black and white then, yes.
And my mum had lots of people around, sort of church groups, and I think they had Tupperware parties and stuff like that.
My dad built this treehouse in the garden.
This thing was 12 foot high.
No, we stayed the night in it.
We all slept in it one night with my dad.
It was lovely.
My brother Tim, my sister Sonia.
Yeah, yeah, all the time.
So that was a lovely, in a way, I suppose, it's a sign that the parent had time.
And when I look at photos of the treehouse that we have, which is an elaborate things like the Taj Mahal or something, it was a sign of my dad spending hours in the garden building something that only we could enjoy.
It's almost... I don't know what... Remind me what I put in there.