...is the woman I want to marry. However, while I'm waiting for her to notice I even exist, let's travel back in time and space to a winter's evening in Glasgow in 1967 or '68. The precise location is under Stockwell bridge (now gone) in Stockwell Street, where I'm looking in the window of a shop at the cover of a BATMAN colouring book which was simply crying out to me. The shop was closed, so I pleaded with my mother to promise to buy it for me at a later date for my then fast-approaching birthday. She did, but I have no idea whether she obtained the book from another source or had to go back to that particular shop to obtain it.
I remember taking it to school and colouring it in during the breaks, and letting ROSS CAMPBELL colour one of the pages in return for allowing me to do the same in his different Batman colouring book. His book may well have been the other one featured here - but then again, may well not have been - so don't go betting your house on the matter.
Ah, happy hours of innocent fun, to be had from the mere application of some coloured pencils or wax crayons - why aren't kids today so easily pleased?
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