Impossible to Forget

by Imogen Clark

There was something magical about a person who could play an instrument whilst their peers watched. It wasn’t so much the skill itself – she had piano to Grade 8 – but the unflustered self-confidence that it took to display their abilities to others. In Maggie’s experience that part was rare

she doubted whether it got much tougher than losing your mum when you were still at school.

‘I find that if something is important to you, it has a way of staying in your memory,’ he said. ‘I love travelling, seeing new places, meeting new people, so when I do it, it would be pretty stupid of me to just forget everything I’d seen as soon as I left.’