Ricky

Me around 2-3 years old.

Happy in my own little world.

It was about this time I had my first dog, I can just remember him.

Actually there were two dogs. My mum and dad bought one each for my sister and me. Two beautiful liver and white cocker-spanials. My Sis, who is six years older than me called her dog Ricky, so I called mine Ricky as well after all that's the kind of thing little sisters do. A couple of weeks later they had died of distemper. They had had their shots for the disease but still contracted it, maybe they had it when they were bought who knows?