While we were going through the loft recently, Karen came across her old school artwork, and amongst it was a poem about life as seen through her window while growing up in Ramsgate, Kent. She read it to me and said she also had one published when she was at school, which she wrote in 1982. I loved the poem. I really thought it caught the location and the time--period well, evoking my own childhood memories. It went back into the loft, and I hope to go and find it again soon so I can share it with you. Unfortunately, she didn't have a copy of the poem that was published, until now... While visiting our parents her mother produced the book and read the poem to us. I thought you might also like to read it, so here it is, as published in The Life Times of the East Kent Critic. It's called 'Dustbin Day'.