So bin bag liner went to school. It was dark on the way back and it must have looked to someone going past like I was wearing a mini leather skirt or something because they wound the window down and went ‘Wahay!’ I remember thinking, what’s that? Like what is that? I don’t understand what that is? This was a very small estate where I grew up so I probably wouldn’t have been more than about 200 metres from school. It was dark, the middle of winter, but it only would have been six o’clock in the evening, seven o’clock at the latest. I think that we probably had freedom at that age more than typical eight or nine year olds would now where everyone’s getting picked up and there’s always an adult to escort kids around. That risk.

Anyway, I vaguely remember everyone getting really angry about it and almost a kind of, ‘That’s because it’s too short. That’s why, it’s because of what you were wearing.’ So there was an anger at how dare these people do this but combined with an, ‘Oh that would be the reason why, it’s because it looks like you’re wearing a short skirt.’ So they shouldn’t have done it but come on you’ve got to think about this as well. It was almost an equal weighting.

I remember being on the bus, leaving the gym just reading a book and sitting there and the guy in front of me turned around and started talking to me. And I just thought it can’t be at me so I kept reading.