Dreams of a Life Page #6

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because someone threw

some clotted cream at him or something

and it hit him in the chest.

'And we were all like school kids

with this naked vicar telling us off.

'But it was just excruciatingly

embarrassing, really bad,

'I think Joyce was just horrified.'

Who threw that one?

That almost caught me in the eye!

That's it. I'm going.

'I don't know to this day

who organised it.'

Whether it was Martin.

He might have done, but it seems odd.

It doesn't seem

like the sort of thing he'd do.

Joyce told me a sister or sisters

had colluded to organise it.

'I don't remember

if her family was there.

I just seem to remember

it being the friends

she'd acquired through Martin, I think.

'I did say to Martin,

"That's odd, isn't it?

"'There's all your mates here

and it's Joyce's 21st."

'Maybe she had a real 21st

some other time

'and these were just like Martin's mates

just to keep them quiet.'

And maybe she had her real 21st

in another guise somewhere.

'Maybe she didn't want different groups

of friends to mix. I don't know.'

Loads of people asked me,

'Where's her family?

'Where are her sisters and her friends?

"It's all your friends."

And I said, "I don't know, really."

I just never met any of them

or her family.

'I thought it was extremely unusual.'

Good morning and welcome.

England world champion

rugby players will find themselves

in the biggest scrum

of their lives today,

when half a million fans turn out

for a victory parade.

# LA

# Is just too much for him

# So he's leaving the life

# We've come to know

# He's leaving

# On the midnight train to Georgia #

'Her mother was

from an Indian extraction,

'although she came

from the West Indies.

'I think her mother came

from quite a good background.

'She did mention something

about tea plantations.

She talked about her parents,

the fact that her mother was from India

and her father was from Grenada.

'I think her mother died

when Joyce was 11.

'I think her mother was about 41.

'Clearly, she was an influence on Joyce.

'A positive influence.'

'She had older sisters

'and her sisters took parental control

of her and brought her up.'

'Sometimes the youngest one

gets a bit more love lavished on them.

'Not deliberately.

It just happens, doesn't it?'

I always thought

she was well brought up

in a Caribbean style

of well brought up.

What we call brought upsy.

She had brought upsy, we call it.

She had that.

'She knew how to behave,

knew how to eat at the table.

"'Don't drain your cup and clean up

your plate like you've been starved."

'She had all the right things.'

'She talked about her dad

being a West Indian, working-class guy.'

'Her father was a carpenter.

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