Emily Malcolmson

Walking with Grandpa Emily Malcolmson

It was a short walk to and from school every day, so each morning and evening Emily and I would walk side by side talking and chatting about nothing. As time went by it became an almost tradition that I would tell Emily a story on her way to school. At first the stories were short lasting only from our gate to classroom door, then gradually the stories got longer and longer so that I would have to pick up from where I had left off each day with another chapter. Some tales lasted a week, others went on for months. In between times I attempted to write down as much of the stories as I could remember so that later I could add in extra descriptions and interest. Each story was set in and around the same town which we called 'Tuther'. Tuther does not really exist, it is based on several different places where I have lived. Apart from the name, Tuther changes from story to story. Sometimes, it is in the middle of the countryside, another story will have it by the coast or somewhere entirely different, so please do not go searching around to find out where it is, because it doesn't!