Family life: A visit to Oban, She Loves You by the Beatles, chocolate splosh

Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes

This photo shows me, aged seven, my mother on the right and my new aunt behind me. The year is 1948, we are in Oban, Scotland, and we have come from Germany. My aunt, my mother’s sister, had married a Scotsman after the war and invited us to stay with her new family. They welcomed us with open arms.