My mother was the family’s reader. And when it was my turn to make a gramophone record it was on her that I modelled myself.
My pieces were from the poems, three of them were sung, one was recited. Fraser-Simson, who had written the music, was going to accompany me on the piano; and his wife, Cicely, being a singer, would help me make the best of what voice I then had. For I was only about 7 years old at the time.
Extract from Christopher Milne's autobiography 'The Enchanted Places' (London: Methuen, 1974)
