My Jobs

Category: Memories , My Jobs

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

1 2