This was easier said than done Growing up in West Earlham at this time followed a wellregulated pattern Until you were five you simply sat at home and got under your parents feet I can remember awful aimless days when I must have been about four playing on a rug in the front room while my mother sat frostily in an armchair Then the September after your fifth birthday you were packed off to Avenue Road infants school half a mile away in the direction of the city