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| 10 | 2019-09-13T06:50:38.000Z | 0 | 2013-10-11T20:11:00.000Z | Janet aged 18 months.jpg | 37 | 20 | Minnie Hunt | content/bedtime-story-janet | Story for Janet written by her Grandma in 1951 | article | 9a549719-57a4-4dd2-87f8-a42c885045de |
"A long time ago and a very long way away, right across the sea there was once a little girl just like you called Muriel. She couldn't say her name very well when she was very little so she always called herself 'Mimi'. Mimi lived with her Mummy and Daddy and her big brother Geoffrey and her little sister Irene. They had a white shaggy dog with brown ears whose name was Pat and a beautiful pussy called Binkie. They liked to play in the garden with their toys. They had a big wooden horse which rocked and which they could get on and make go very fast. Geoffrey had a toy train which went along on lines, just like the real train you went on to the sea, only very little.
Mimi had a dollies pram and a little house for all the very small dollies to live in, with beds and tables and chairs. She also had some cups and saucers and plates and she and her little sister, Irene, used to give all the dollies and teddies their tea in the garden very often. They used to have their own tea in the garden too and Pat, the dog, had his saucer of real tea and Binkie had his saucer of milk too.
Sometimes they all went to the seaside with their Mummy and Daddy and played in the sand and splashed in the water. They enjoyed it very much and soon learned to swim. When they grew a little bigger they all went to school. First Geoffrey went with his pencils and crayons and his school satchel, like Bill's, and then Muriel and at last Irene. Muriel had stopped calling herself Mimi now because she could say Muriel nicely and didn't want to be called a baby.
They all went to school for a long long time and learned to read and write and draw, so that they could read lots of lovely stories in their own books and draw pictures and write letters to their friends, just like you will some day soon and like Mummy and Daddy do now.
After a long time Geoffrey and Muriel and Irene became really grown up people and had to learn lots more things besides reading, writing and drawing, how to make things like Daddy and how to sew and cook and paint pictures like Mummy and ever so many other things that grown up people do.
All the time that Muriel was growing up in a big city called London, there was a little boy called Stan growing up in another place. One day Muriel's Daddy and Mummy went to live in a place called Loughborough and Stan also went there to learn how to make nice furniture and other things and to play football with the other boys.
One day Stan said to Muriel “Will you come for a walk with me” and after that they often went for walks together, till one day Stan asked Muriel to stay with him always and live with him. But first he said he must go a long way across the sea to a place called Nairobi in Africa and find a nice little house for them to live in. So he went off in a big aeroplane and left Muriel behind with her Mummy. While he was away a lovely little baby came to Muriel. As soon as she could she took the little baby on a big ship and sailed away to Africa to find Stan so that he could be a real Daddy to her, and they called her Janet.
Stan and Muriel loved Janet very much and bought her lots of lovely things and they all lived together in a nice house with a lovely garden. One day they will take Janet across the sea and show her where they lived when they were little, where all the people they love and left behind are waiting to see Janet."