Days like these

Billy Dingwall

I have little recall of my childhood ,I certainly do not remember the ' day' our mother abandoned her 7 children ,nor the 'day' the lorry came to transport my two sisters and brothers and myself to our new orphanage home ,our two older brothers ,would join us later, our eldest brother had run away ,he didn't fancy the idea of going into an orphanage and the second oldest was apparently sickly with pneumonia so our mother decided to take him with her.

I was 3 years old when all this turmoil was going on . ... (continues)