My children always enjoyed hearing me read out loud to them. I would make birthday tapes and CD’s of their…
Family
All about the photographs I found and sorted to an old family album. This way all the family can share in the delightful photos without having to leaf through the book safely tucked away at Footlights.
The Texas State Fair…
Two years ago my self-sustainable, rock climbing, Wildman, son was in a dither. A state of agitation is a more…
Funyun Day…
Quite a few years ago I was pregnant for the first time and so naturally I had a Due Date.…
Saturday Mornings…
When I was eight I wrote a poem while sitting in the garden with my mother. We were in London…
Catching Flies…
My grandmother, Sarah Agnes, was a feisty character. During the war, (that’s WWII) she bought up houses in London when…
PerriWinkle’s Birthday….
Last week, 25 years ago, I was ready for hubs to come home from the Bee-Gee’s tour and help me…
Leaving Texas…
We shared shrimp poutine and a salad with hot pretzel bread…scarfing the lot at. A few snippets of news were exchanged in the noisy environment and comments about food, beer and birds were shouted!
Happy Birthday Daddy…
I keep records of birthdays in my calendars and diaries, and along the names I write the age they will…
Happy Birthday Simon…
Today is my rock climbing son’s first birthday… as a married man! I was still a working Mum when this…
The Culture Gap…
Continued privations at the end of the war made comments like,
“You’d never think we were the victors,” commonplace on the rubble-filled streets and in the empty shops.