inchie challenge The Past

Our prompt  for this week's inchie is

The Past.

This had me remembering my best friend Natasha.

We met at primary school aged five-

Tash was hanging upside down on the school railings.

We spent so much time together 

& were ALWAYS dressing up.

We were in a fancy hat competition

and wore our long dresses

 & were photographed for the local paper.

Our dresses were were very like the

Kate Greenaway ones I've used in my inchie.

***

I've backed my inchie with a vintage

footpaths map

showing the village where we grew up.

We learned our

abc and sums together.

I've smudged some chalk on & some blue ink.

Cleaning the blackboard was considered a treat

 and I remember getting our first

ink pens & getting inky fingers !

I've photographed my inchie

on  the inside cover of an old school book.

***

Tash & me messing around

in the photo booth-

I'm the one in the silly headband !

( I plaited that out of three long scarves ! )

Great memories from

The Past

Thank you Fiona

http://inchybyinch.blogspot.com/