sitting on mum's lap (1)

this picture is of me sitting on my mum's lap when i was about 18 months old. i am in one of those very pretty dresses that people used to put little girls in. she is reading to me - i can't see what the book is. i seem to be distracted by someone else - not the photographer. my mum looks beautiful - i remember the necklace she is wearing. it was made of glass beads which i think were probably venetian glass. the dress is a typical pattern that she wore, rich jewel-like colours. we are sitting in my dad's chair. it was a green parker-knoll chair which had a winged back.

mum looks as though she is nothing to do with me in this picture. this may have been just a fluke of the camera. but somehow the woman and the child feel miles apart.