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>I remember making a friend while staying in a caravan in France and chasing lizards together
>I remember not wanting to step into the chlorine pit before entering the swimming pool
>I remember being one of the worst swimmers in my class
>I remember intuiting that it was sad that my registration class teacher went on holidays alone
>I remember telling God that I no longer wanted to be a professional BMX rider and asking to let me suffer my mother's sadness instead of her
>I remember my drunken uncle sneaking chocolate coins into my hand as a joke at a family barbecue
>I remember when the snack machine broke and let me have free snacks at my father's social club
>I remember preferring the feeling and scent of my mother to my father's stubbly face when lying between them in their bed
>I remember a girl I didn't know shouting that I was a freckle freak while walking past her home with my friend
>I remember my spectacles breaking when a classmate kicked the ball in my face
>I remember feeling insecure because I couldn't understand the circular clock
>I remember flushing woodlice from a hole in the back garden concrete using the hosepipe
>I remember staying at my cousin's house and daydreaming about there being a crawl tunnel joining that room and the room of the cute older girl next door
>I remember feeling annoyed at the girl whose mother had to travel to school to sit with her as we received vaccinations
>I remember not reading the book I was forced to buy at the pop-up bookstore in school on World Book Day
>I remember being scared by the opening credits of Goosebumps
>I remember picking my scabs and enjoying the idea of it being a naughty and unhealthy thing to do
>I remember when my mother suffered a back spasm and couldn't move and I had to cycle to pharmacy and the stand in the street to escort the doctor to her room
>I remember sitting outside the squash courts and a girl saying I had a huge head
