My grandparents on both sides came to Australia with their families from Britain in the 1920s, as did many of their friends and, like many Australians, still referred to Britain as "home". This was very confusing to me as a child, trying to imagine a house so huge as to have so many people in it. Then one day I saw a picture of Buckingham Palace - ah! - that explained it! I had a rather grandiose idea of my family origins for years afterwards.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to belive that the law was a number of rules on a notice board outside Buckingham Palace.— Nathan Vasey
- I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age
- As a child i was under the impression that the huge power station chimneys were cloud makers.— scruffyoik
- I used to believe cartoons where real people. You can imagine how that went... — Emma
- I used to believe that kings and queens and members of royal families don't fart, wee or poo.. — Leema
- When I was a child I used to believe that if some shoe was upside down, someone in my family could die.— Camila C.