Dear Mo, (as you prefer today) I dug out my 1971 Magpie diary today to look up the brief entry…
memories
Throwing Away My Uncle’s Life…
To be honest I really wasn’t surprised by what I found when I entered my uncle’s house that first day.…
My Uncle Tone…
It had been 56 years since my Uncle Tony, Tone to his parents, bought his three-bedroomed house in Littlehampton. He…
Many Happy Returns of the Day…
This is your first birthday as a father! Many Happy Returns of the Day Son! I was there when your…
Many Happy Returns of the Day Daughts…
Funny expression this English one, Many Happy Returns of the Day! The Day meaning Birth-day of course! Hubs and I left…
Fall…In Texas?
Autumn… A favorite time of year- -if we are blessed with one! Texas typically rushes headlong into winter giving a…
Birthday Boy…
First and last children get to be onlies for a couple of years… if they’re lucky and especially if they’re…
A Padlocked Door…
Our trip to Kingsland in the Texas hill country included a locked room in our suite that drove me to…
Card Exchange…
Ian, my film-maker son, and I have been exchanging cards each month for the last three years…or so he says.…