Elephants

Yorkshire, 2014

For some reason, this morning, I woke up thinking of a story my mother told me, of when the circus came to the dale. Elephants walked through the street, she said. People came from miles around just to see the elephants.

 I didn’t believe her. Well, not until I saw an old video of the parade. It took seeing it to make it true. 

Years later I told her this over Christmas dinner. She told me she’d made the story up. I always thought that was funny.