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  • Leaving the North

    Time for another blog. This is all that happened when we took the sudden decision to leave the North and go “South” with my new hubby who had hailed from down there. Hubby’s stepfather had suddenly died about a month before we married and the main problem was “how will his mum cope?” It was […]

  • My Wedding Day

    Hubby and I first met when I was 18 and he was 26. Our first date was going to the cinema to see “The Sound of Music”. The date was a bit of a disaster and I cannot eat Neapolitan ice cream to this day. We hardly spoke to each other the whole evening and […]

  • Uncle Fred’s Telly

    My dad was no 10 of 11 children and Uncle Fred was his youngest brother…the last child to be born. My dad was only two when his own dad died so my Grandma Brown was left with all those children to bring up. I don’t know anything about their childhood but I remember Uncle Fred […]

  • My Grandad

    I adored my grandad. I was the oldest of I think 11 grandchildren. I miss him to this day. He and nana lived in what used to be the servants quarters….in a place called Spencer’s Buildings in a hamlet called Hutton Henry in County  Durham. He played football for the village team. He used to […]

  • Why I dont like Gardening.

    I have never been interested in gardening but over the years I have been “dragged” into it every so often. My dad used to grow potatoes and flowers….mainly “Sweet Williams”. My mum used to sell them in bunches for a bit of pocket money The nearest I ever got to gardening as a child was […]

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