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One of our family's abiding institutions is the Sunday Lunch. Our three (once four)
generations gather to Oxley Road on Sundays and share a meal. When I was little, the
grandchildren tended to eat far too fast and play far too loudly. I remember Nai Nai's good
humour as we mistook her rocking chair for a climbing frame. In lieu of a television, Nai
Nai provided a tall, well-stocked bookshelf next to the childrens' table, and thereby
contributed much to my early childhood literacy. She chose our books well, and the
selection was expansive, ranging from Peter Rabbit to a picture book on exotic animals
(on the lowest shelf), from Roald Dahl to Arthurian legend (on the higher shelves). I never
saw what was on the highest shelf; it was a very tall bookshelf and I was not a very tall
child.
One of our family's abiding institutions is the Sunday Lunch. Our three (once four)
generations gather to Oxley Road on Sundays and share a meal. When I was little, the
grandchildren tended to eat far too fast and play far too loudly. I remember Nai Nai's good
humour as we mistook her rocking chair for a climbing frame. In lieu of a television, Nai
Nai provided a tall, well-stocked bookshelf next to the childrens' table, and thereby
contributed much to my early childhood literacy. She chose our books well, and the
selection was expansive, ranging from Peter Rabbit to a picture book on exotic animals
(on the lowest shelf), from Roald Dahl to Arthurian legend (on the higher shelves). I never
saw what was on the highest shelf; it was a very tall bookshelf and I was not a very tall
child.