Patrick Collins

So anyway, we landed there.

on the Monday now bear in mind we had to bury Ivan as well with the loss of him and we were devastated at the funeral so we landed there about the Monday evening it was just we hit the ground running as they say and then

Yeah.

And Mary and Davy were upstairs.

And we were, the next thing they called up and we went up into the spare bedroom and Mary opened this wardrobe and honest to God, all this stuff, she said, oh jackpot, all this.

And she said herself, all these photographs and letters and everything came out.

And the next thing stuck between it was a cassette tape that said the kids were

September 1984.

So there was a cassette player.

And now the cassette player is something that plays tapes for older people.

It's like a little square thing that plays tape.

A little retro thing now, isn't it?

I don't know if it's making a comeback now or not.

And if the thing came out, you could use a pencil to put the tape back in again.

But anyway, we put the tape in and I'm sure you were singing and...

It was only nine Nicola.

James was 11.

He was 11 and she was 13.

by James Reeves.

I think she must have learned it at school.