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I can remember the original manuscript so clearly that it sometimes feels as if I’m reading the past and present mixed together— watching the ghosts of unruly children tearing around open-plan living rooms, climbing damson trees suddenly growing again in designer kitchens, playing tag around the shiny vehicles, making daisy chains on driveways where the grass tennis court used to be. We often chased each other there with the heavy roller meant for keeping the court’s surface even—though any smoothness we managed to impose was soon ruptured by the wildflowers which studded the grass with irresistible profusion, however often mower and roller were applied.
How it came to be applied to a prayer cycle is uncertain, though there are various stories that seek to explain this shift in use (usually by referring to some aspect of the rose symbolism associated with the Virgin Mary). A Muslim’s rosary has 99 beads to remind its user of the 99 names of God. A Catholic rosary has 150 beads, divided into decades by 15 larger beads, each decade associated with one of the mysteries in the life of Christ or the Virgin. Buddhist rosaries have 108 beads, the number of frailties the mind must overcome en route to enlightenment.
Secondly, on those occasions when, with foolhardy disregard for the dire consequences likely to be visited on us, we did kick a ball about in the garden, the roses themselves had an instant and painful way of discouraging proximity. It was more a mark of the effectiveness of their thorns than our fear of Mrs Rainey’s scoldings that we so rarely played outside. Not that this was any great inconvenience. In those days there were nearby fields to roam in, and my garden, and the gardens of other friends, offered a choice of less injurious territories for our games.
