Wonderful toy by Cesca
One of my favourite toys when I was young was a blackboard that my granddad had made for me and my brothers.
Even though I've never been the greatest artist, I used to spend ages drawing on the blackboard and even got very excited when I got boxes of multi-coloured chalk in my stocking at Christmas!
Both my mother and I are left-handed and she always used to tell me how difficult it is for left-handed people to write neatly, so I made it my mission to practice my handwriting on my blackboard, dreaming that I was a teacher in a classroom full of children. I remember my mum coming into my room one day and saying how impressed she was with my hand-writing, which made me very happy.
The blackboard is still in my parent's garage to this day, wrapped up in plastic, waiting until I have a left-handed child so I can give it to them to practice their handwriting on.
This memory was originally submitted to the BBC Memoryshare web service.
