I remember the migraines like it was yesterday. It was years and years before I would eat certain things again. Beetroot, blackberries and apple combined and jacket potatoes. It was the smell. The school dinner smell of those three things especially. I have a picture perfect memory of being sick in the outdoor girls toilets of North Leeds Primary school.
I used to be so violently ill that very often the doctor would have to be called out to our home to inject me with a pain killer and something to stop me vomiting continuously. Yet teachers seemed to think I was crying wolf and making it up.
The irony was I loved that school. One year I was voted May Queen and the following year so was sis. That’s her in the photo. We did maypole dancing and other pagan practices.
To this day though apple and blackberry combined still are the devil’s spawn.