Imagination

Reading this post by Daddy, Papa and Me had me thinking back to my childhood and my imaginary pets.

I was fortunate that from a very young age I had pets of various different forms and sizes - some semi-wild such as frogs in the garden pond and a tortoise, other more domestic ones such as a budgie, a hamster and later a cat. Even so, I had two imaginary animal friends - a beautiful white stallion with silver mane and tail (inspired, no doubt, by Shadowfax) and a wolf.

I remember my pets keeping me company especially on long car journeys. Being an only child, long journeys were spent reading (yes,I can read in cars but not, for some reason, in those hideous continental coaches that wallow all over the road) but once it got too dark to read or I ran out of books my pets would appear. The wolf stretched out over the back seat of the car or perhaps keeping my feet warm while I watched the stallion effortlessly gallop alongside the car, bounding over walls, parked cars and another other obstacles.

So thanks to Trey for prompting the memory and here's to you, my beautiful creatures.

Happy Journeys.