Gingerism
Peter Baker 1939-2019 (aka Ginger Baker) On Wednesday afternoon, I collected Phoebe from her primary school playground and walked her back to our house. This journey takes less than ten minutes. On Glenalmond Road some pupils from our local secondary school were passing by also on their way home. They were younger pupils - probably from Y7 or Y8. There were three boys and two girls. One of the girls had red hair - not bright ginger but a colour that contained some honey and copper tinges too. I suppose that some might refer to her hair colour as "strawberry blonde". There was some playful after-school banter going on between the kids. Then one of the boys called ahead to the strawberry blonde girl that was she was ginger-haired. "Ginge!" he called and "Ginger!" The girl yelled back that she was most definitely "not ginger". On the surface at least, she took the taunting in her stride. I imagine that it was not the first time that she had h...