Roland Humphries 1980 to 2003

Roland took his first steps when he was just over fifteen months old. Before this, while still crawling, he’d found ways of escaping out of the front door, or through the garden gate and off down the driveway.

He had his first camping trip to Worthy Farm (but not yet for the Glastonbury Festival). This was for the Ecology Party summer gathering, full of music and including simple home-made fun for the children.

That summer came the first of many visits to large country houses in Broom near Hagley. Roland’s grandparents were house sitters for various people at Broom and elsewhere, and it was lovely for him to play in the large rooms and grounds, especially when his cousin Laura, and later Catherine, were there as well.

He began to get used to being looked after by other people sometimes, such as grandparents or a neighbour, and he started at Mother and Toddler Group in the autumn.

At twenty months Roland was only saying about six indistinct words, but later he had a very good vocabulary.

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