Saturday 20 December 2014

Advent calendar 20 - Mistletoe kiss...

Who would you most like to kiss under the Mistletoe? Years ago my sixteen year old self would have answered immediately Miss Taque.

Miss Taque, or Helen as I came to call her, was our school art teaching assistant. She was training to become a teacher at a local college and for a couple of months was sent to my school to get a little experience. I had what you might call a bit of a crush on Miss Taque, but of course I was a schoolboy and she was a teacher and at twenty or so, a real woman.

I watched her from afar for weeks. So many weeks that, as Christmas approached, there were only a couple left before we broke up for Christmas and Miss Taque went home never to return. It had to be done.

I found her in the art room at morning break. She was tiding away some papers. I walked up to her, reached into my pocket, and took out the small piece of mistletoe I’d bought from the greengrocers on North Street.

‘Christmas kiss Miss?’ I asked nervously holding it above my head.

She smiled and much to my surprise kissed me. It wasn’t a big kiss, but it wasn’t a peck and I carried that kiss around with me all over that Christmas, keeping it close to ward off the cold.

I bumped into her a few months later on the Aylesbury bus and we went for a coffee like you do. We got on well and I saw her a few of times after that. We met for a drink in Oxford, went to the pictures, and wandered the art galleries. It was fun for a while, but it wasn’t going anywhere and then one day it just stopped as we both moved on.

Sometimes I wonder what might have been. There was only four years between us, but at he time it seemed like a generation. I’ll never forget my mistletoe kiss though.

7 comments:

  1. Tim Preston on FB
    Imagine a really good Welsh accent - Dammit, I thought that this was going to be a story about Druids, magic, poison and gory swamp dwellin monsters boyo. But instead it's about your pervy little pubescent mind - I liked it

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    1. Andrew Height
      It did get a bit magical Tim

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  2. Vicky Brickhill on FB
    Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter ....

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  3. Kevin Parrott on FB
    What happened to her... do you know?

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    1. Andrew Height
      She moved away Kevin. Got a teaching job down south I think.

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  4. In answer to my question:

    Robert Mills
    Me

    Neil Barrett
    You darling

    Clare Pritchard
    Paul Simonon, then a close second the other half x

    Jayne Butterworth
    George clooney oh hes taken now i guess my hubby paul! X love u to bits paul who else wud put up with me ha ha !

    Gloria Brown
    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Dawn Marshall
    My wife

    Bernadette Doyle
    Mel Mackuin xxx

    Fraser Stewart
    Not sure. Do you have a list?

    Andrew Height
    Holly Willoughby Fraser? A short list but...

    Kevin Burke
    Belinda Carlisle but twenty years ago

    Andrew Height
    When she was in the fountain in the Go Go's Kevin? Me too.

    Kevin Burke
    Circles in the sand Andy and yes she was ...

    Cloe Fyne
    Hmmmm......

    Andrew Height
    Which one of 1D Cloe?

    Cloe Fyne
    Lol Andrew Height it's a tough one, that!! Prob Harry of course!

    Cloe Fyne
    But I also strangely quite like that ginger vicar off the telly!! lol

    Cloe Fyne
    No, sorry. It's Robert pattinson! Final answer !

    Andrew Height
    What a slapper you are Cloe.

    Cloe Fyne
    Lol I know, I know! Just too much choice! Still, I can't be accused of having a 'type'!

    Andrew Height
    There is, however, a ginger theme to your lust. Ed?

    Cloe Fyne
    Sheeran? Yes!

    Cloe Fyne
    Harry styles and r patz aren't gingers though!!

    Cloe Fyne
    And Prob the ginger kids off Harry Potter too!! (Ooooops yea there does seem to be some ginger lust going on I see!)

    Louisa Morgan
    Ed might be a tad too ginger...

    Cloe Fyne
    Orange you mean?! Lol

    Andrew Height
    Chris Evans?

    Sue Mcnally
    Pip Appleton

    Tim Preston
    My arse

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