Month: January 2019

Me and my family at the cinema 1976

 

I’ve added quite a few new pics to my novel in the last few months. This one shows a rare moment that me and my family had back in the 1970s, which I can just about remember.

The Chinese community in Nottingham used to put on Chinese films at the Odeon after all the restaurants and takeaways closed at night. This normally involved my parents waking me up from underneath the pile of dirty tablecloths from behind the bar at about 1am then driving us to watch Bruce Lee or a rotund lady comedian called Fei Fei. I was half asleep and didn’t understand most of it, but I didn’t care, because it was one of the only times we got to spend time together as a family – plus I used to get a whole box of Fruit Gums to myself!