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  • My One and Only

    Am I talking about a long lost love……..no I am not? I am talking about my one and only tattoo. I was approaching 60 and I did not want a big party or any secret celebrations….so I decided to have a tattoo so hubby paid for it. I decided to have an owl……I love owls […]


  • Snippets From Childhood.

    As we get older we begin the forget some stuff that happens in our childhood I can remember my first day at school very clearly….it was a long walk along a very busy road to a village school. My dad was in the army at that time and stationed at a place called High Lee […]


  • Life On The Wards

    In 1998 I took a big decision to try for a position for a health care assistant at the hospital I had been at for many years in the catering department. I had always nursed a secret dream of being a “nurse”….so I was approaching age 49 and thought If I don’t do it now […]


  • Catering Days

    After we moved to Guildford and in the house, we used to live in before we both decided that to make ends meet……..we had rent to pay ….we used to live in tied cottages which went with the job. I decided to find an evening job…..so we waited until hubby found work and I applied […]


  • Grandad Visiting

    One part of my life that I have never forgotten and the memories remain where my Saturday afternoons visiting my grandad. His name was Joe and he lived in a village in County Durham called Hutton Henry. Which is just off the A19……..I think. I remember that Grandad had been in hospital and when he […]


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