Benoni

The jungle-gym falling on me.

The mower-blade connecting with a bolt hidden in the grass and sending it through the one bedroom window. Some time later Geoff was running in the yard with his cowboy hat over his face and he ran slap-bang into the same window, shattering it. I don’t know how he wasn’t cut by the glass.

The maid and the shoes.

Dad driving over my scooter and thinking it was one of us kids.

Learning to ride a bicycle and falling into the cactus.

Having to catch the bus home, losing the 5c bus-fare and walking all the way home.

Dad making us wooden houses painted white with red roofs.