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Saturday Saturday. The frontmost day of the weekend, the first day of freedom at the end of every week at school. Saturday was always a day of great anticipation for me during my younger years. It sentiency not only the beginning of a weekend away from the rigours of first school and learning my times tables, but also my first real social experiences. Saturday was Club Day. At around the age of 8 or 9, my Mum decided that I needed to get step to the fore into the real world and get a taste of Saturday life, and all in all it had to offer. So, on the advice of my much older and wiser 10 year old cousin, I chose to join the local craft club. Each Saturday morning from that day onwards, I would join the 6 or 7 other girls in the hot, cramp Cathys Crafts store in Mont morency. For $7 a week I could paint pieces of wood shaped as teddies, or perhaps evening stick some glitter on a nice exhibit for Mothers Day. Either way it served as a inform for the rest of my life that craft was definitely not my scene. Project by and by project, week in, week out, I came home bearing one more useless, awful testament to bad taste and craftsmanship. Mum would be lightly supportive with kind words such as why fatiguet you give this to Nana for Christmas? Or in other words I never want that hideous toilet roll cover in my house again. Dad wad not sooner so understanding. My skills with the paint brushing were a good deal criticised, as I had not used a polyglaze or a neutral undercoat or a size 12 brush. Although the $7 a week had produced some memories of gluing too many sequins on my photo frame, or never being able to paint flowers quite right, the time had come for me to give my craft club days away. Forever. And so it was that I found myself, hand glued to Mums, at the microscopical Athletics sign-up day. And so it was that I found myself being talked into being truehearted and signing up with the valiant Montmorency, who had never yet won a c lub championship and are likely to never achieve this begrudge goal.