2020 August

Latest Posts

  • My Brush with Royalty

    No…..I have never met the Queen but back in the day when hubby was a gardener for a retired army major in Berkshire….during Ascot week they used to hold house parties and us women had to “help out”. As Ascot approached it was all hands on deck especially the year that youngest son “H”…..no not […]

  • Army Brat.

    I can still remember my Dad being in the army…I must have been a sort of “army brat”Let’s see what I can dredge up. The earliest memory is from living in a top floor flat in Newport which at the time was in Monmouthshire. I can remember my mum with a pram trying to get […]

  • My Jobs

    I left school in 1964 and on 31st August of that year, I started at my very first paid job. My wage was£4. and 2d sterling a week. It was in a mail-order firm in Hendon Sunderland which is now Tyne and Wear. My dear mum would have loved me to have found a job […]

  • Introducing the pink haired pensioner

    Well… My lovely son TJ as set this blog up for. I am quite nervous at this first attempt. I read a friends blog last night and thought to myself…”I could do that… and TJ said “I can set that up for you.I am Carol…Carol Wake…I am 71 but in my head, I feel a […]

  • Introducing myself

    I am a virgin blogger and not sure if I am doing this right. I have just typed a whole lot of blurb in drafts and lost it… I think. So here is my second attempt. Let me introduce myself…I am 71… pink-haired… but grey at the moment got the sun has drawn the pink […]

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