Communal Holiday

Communal Holiday. The holiday home for children was near a cold lake flanked by two black mountains We children swam there every morning at seven before the sun warmed the lake. Breakfast at eight, mainly oatmeal porridge and stale bread. Boot camp for children. Three weeks of this then we were let loose to roam a town of summer dust and trees in the park we could climb up to get away from adults who had forgotten their own childhood.