Nancy Bird Walton - As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off

As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

- Nancy Bird Walton

source: Interview with George Negus on "George Negus Tonight", March 8, 2004.

topic: Mother, Book, Climbing, Jumping Off, 1930s