My original birth certificate has a one inch smear of lipstick on it and it has a 40s look about it. A big question for me is: how did it get to be on there? I appreciate that this issue cannot be remotely interesting to you but please stay with me. I need your support.
Was the certificate on a 1940s dressing table in Unthank Terrace Sleetburn and then became a victim of a rolling and uncaring lipstick? No. Angles are all wrong for that.
Perhaps the certificate fell from a table onto the floor and I, in nappies, mistook the lipstick for a red ink pen? No. I might have been capable of burning down a child's toy house a few years later but wilful lipstick smearing was not on my agenda. I didn't have an agenda then.
I think the most likely solution is that the certificate was in my mother's handbag together with the lipstick and they mingled unashamedly.
What do you think? Am I right or am I right.
WB
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Perhaps your Mam was getting the ration books out of her handbag at the Store when the mysterious connection took place within her handbag. Is there any sugar embedded around the lipstick smear? That may give you a leading clue. After all the Store was in Unthank Terrace.
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