[West Ender]

Apropos of nothing at all; my younger daughter went through a religious phase in her pre-teen years. This was fine by me.

She joined the Brownies - Methodists - she's Brown Owl of that same troop now, and she's an atheist but she attends church parades. For about a year she went to the Methodist Sunday School but also went to the C of E parish church with school for carols etc. Then she decided she would like to be a Catholic. I said I would be happy to go to Mass with her (Catholic Church not far from our house) as, though now an agnostic, I knew what it was all about but, before it got off the ground, she decided to become a Jew. This stumped me as the nearest synagogue is in Sale but, if she'd been really keen, I would have made the effort.

In the end she decided that she was an atheist and I never tried to influence her, one way or the other.