like to marry. However,
while I'm waiting for her
to discover I even exist,
let's travel back in time
and space to a winter's
evening in Glasgow in
1967 or '68. The precise
location is under a bridge
(now gone) in Stockwell
Street, where I'm looking
in the window of a shop at
the cover of a BATMAN
colouring book which was
simply crying out to me.
The shop was closed, so
I pleaded with my mother
to promise to buy it for me
at a later date for my fast-
approaching birthday.
She did, but I have no
idea whether she obtained the book from another source or had to go back
to that particular shop to obtain it.
I recall once taking it
to school and colouring
various bits in during the
break, and letting ROSS
CAMPBELL colour-in
one of the pages in return
for allowing me to do the
same in his different Bat-
man colouring book. His
book may well have been
the other one featured here
- but then again, may well
not have been - so don't
go betting your house on
it. You wouldn't want to
have to live in a cave,
would you? (Unless it
was the BATCAVE
of course.)
Ah, many happy hours of innocent fun, to be had from the mere
application of some coloured pencils or wax crayons - why aren't
kids today so easily pleased?
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