One day in grade two, I was reading my class assigned reading book with my teacher, Mrs Peacock. I was still learning to speak English.
Although quite competent, I was still receiving what was known in the 1970s as special English classes. I remember reading out loud from a book describing a character, a little girl in a sari, as having olive skin and almond eyes. The little girl was Indian.
“What is olive skin?” I asked Mrs Peacock.
Mrs Peacock explained people have different colored skin. She rubbed the top of my wrist and said, “Your skin is olive too, see? My skin is white,” she said, pointing to herself.
1/1 TWINS who died less than an hour after birth died as a result of prematurity - indirectly caused by a medical intervention procedure which was performed to try and save them, an inquest concluded. A six-hour inquest heard how Faith Summer Peacock and Reggie Robert Peacock died 53 minutes after being born on August 1, 2019 at Dorset County Hospital. The twins died of prematurity which senior coroner for Dorset Rachael Griffin said was an indirect result of multifetal reduction surgery . On May 13, Rebecca Peacock, 26, of Lyme Regis, found out she was pregnant with quintuplets after natural contraception, an extremely rare occurrence. Mrs Peacock and husband Peter, 35, were referred by DCH fetal consultant Dr Robert Sandy to have surgery at St George s Hospital, London, on June 5, 2019.