Conversations with Aldershot

73 72 Before lockdown, I had just changed school, and I was really anxious to go to it every day. It was a slight relief when they askedme to quarantine for two weeks, as I was walking intomy winter cold, and I was astonished when I realised that we would be at home for the next month! Although it seems difficult to cope with three siblings, and parents working fromhome, it really isn’t, andmy explorations withmy younger brother proves so. We would go out on walks and expeditions, as there was a gigantic graveyard just opposite to our garden inviting us imploringly in. During some of the times, we visited a particularly fascinating tree, whichmy little brother discovered we could climb its glorious branches, and I found a little metal rod with the number 135 written on it, and planted it into the earth of where our Treehouse stood. Zara Ajmal, 11

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