Open letter to Spike

Spike is a lifelong friend of my grandson, Steve, and as I have not been able to contact him, to thank him for generously sending me a bottle of Irish whiskey, something that I am very fond of and with which I will be toasting his health, when Stephen and I get together, I am… Continue reading Open letter to Spike

Stress In Millennium 2

Being retired with a relatively new, small house, and few responsibilities. I have time for things I never had time for in the recent past, and which so many people don’t seem to have time for today. No! Not flying of to a Costa, just sitting in a deck chair and crowd-watching, reading, walking for… Continue reading Stress In Millennium 2

Pre WW2, !930 to 39, in Search of Progress, 1920 to2000 plus

What follows here, and several other posts in this vein, are narrow views of one person, not over-views determined by research. They are done mainly to determine how life has changed over 80 years. Take children; the phrase ‘children should be seen and not heard’, in its various forms, was a Victorian maxim people lived… Continue reading Pre WW2, !930 to 39, in Search of Progress, 1920 to2000 plus

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Pre WW2,1930 to ’39. in order, Christian Science as I Found It

My Aunt became a Christian Scientist, influenced by an artist friend who lived in Manchester. She passed her ideas on to my mother and after a while my mother became a wishy-washy version herself, never quite at the heart of the movement, but reading a lot, which was a necessity, because Mrs Mary Baker-Eddy based… Continue reading Pre WW2,1930 to ’39. in order, Christian Science as I Found It

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Pre WW2, 1930 to 1939, in order, Enforced Holidays

Parents used to make strange decisions, with the best intentions and even self- sacrifice, but with little realisation what they were condemning their children to. Single parenting is not, and never was, easy, conscience has to be weighed against pragmatism, welfare, economic resources and what is possible. My mother decided, I should not be kicking… Continue reading Pre WW2, 1930 to 1939, in order, Enforced Holidays

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