I knew I'd written a post before I went to bed last night.
Anyway.
I'd like to get your attention so we can all go over and look at CASINO AVENUE. The inspector has written about and put up pictures of "The Charlton Triangle." in which stands the Cherry Orchard Estate where I lived until about seven years ago.
Although my memory is very hazy, i was about 3 or 4 at the time, those pictures are very simular to the flats in which i lived,
I'm not sure but I think I lived in the flats shown in the top row of pictures, in the middle.
And even if it wasn't that one, it was one very, very similar, Actually the more I think about it I think it had 3 floors to it so it probably wasn't that one.
I remember living in the flats very clearly, despite my age at the time, I remember having nightmares as we could hear people above us fighting and screaming and flushing the toilet, I remember smelling piss and rubbish as we walked down the flights of stairs, I remember it being dank and dark there and my Dad building a gate, that was impossible to open so me and the other kids on the floor couldnt get onto the stairs.
My Mothership says that I shouldn't remember that but I do, and I remember thinking that no matter what I ended up doing in life, I was never going to live in a flat like that again.
I don't remember the exact date, but it was some time after my brother was born that we got moved to the Rectory Field which was on the same dirty estate but it was a proper house, and we lived next to Oldest Friend and It was the same house that my Mother had lived in when she was young and I remember deocorating and finding graffitti from her brothers on the walls and the original lino from when she lived there.
I liked that house although it did have its own set of problems, the only main one I remember being subisdence and i think I heard about asbestos but I don't know.
I miss being there sometimes, Oldest Friend was always there and I'd climb over our adjoining fence to play with her and her brother and younger sister and we played in the circle, being banned from leaving it. I knew everyone in that circle and it was pretty ace, now they're all being moved out and we left a long time ago, when they were first making moves about knocking it all down and I went back a few times to see Oldest Friend before I went to uni and they moved to Surrey.