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STAR LETTER

Toilet roll tales

I started writing at the age of six when I became the family’s toilet paper organiser. There was none to be had at all during WW2 and newspapers were the only alternative.

Several times a week I would cut squares out of the Sunday People and Daily Express – while carefully avoiding the Rupert Bear section, because I pasted each day’s episode into a scrap book. Then I threaded string through holes in the corners and hung them on a hook in the outdoor toilet.

Children weren’t allowed to read the