When I was young, up to the age of about 5 years old, my family lived in the country. We lived about halfway along a small street, and directly across the road from us, an elderly couple lived, and at the back of their house was a huge garden, filled with lots of trees and flowers, and a fishpond. All my grandparents lived in the country about four hours away, so the elderly couple across the …showed first 75 words of 650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 650 total…picked up sticks and tried to catch the fish, and then I tried to touch them with my finger. After spending a day in the garden, I was filthy, my clothes and skin were covered with dirt, and my mum always made me have a bath as soon as I got home. But I loved that garden, and I always looked forward to spending the following day getting dirty again, and chasing geckos and fish.