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There is a problem!
Do you need time? The time I need is my past! As a child I must have spent lots of time drawing and applying paint to paper but, as far as I remember, I wasn’t given any encouragement in that … Continue reading
My three wishes
You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for? When I was a little kid I would have wished for sweets or a doll or some other toy. When I was three and a half, I might have … Continue reading
The Moon?
How much would you pay to go to the moon? Anyone who knows me knows the answer to the question above! I have spent the last 65 years telling anyone who asks me about going back to America or travelling … Continue reading
Food specialty
What food would you say is your specialty? I’m eighty years old. I have been cooking meals for one family or another for 66 years since I was about fourteen. About six years ago I realised that I have grown … Continue reading
Hallowe’en
I remember Hallowe’en, 1957. I dressed as a fairy, or a princess or something girly. Judy would have dressed as a cowboy or a ghost or, maybe, a spaceman and Jennie might have been a witch or a princess. I … Continue reading
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What a Headache!
When I was young I had headaches. They weren’t usually terrible but bothersome. Then, I reached my twenties and POW‼️ I realised that these weren’t just headaches, they were something else, entirely. They were headaches but with a ‘sick’ feeling … Continue reading
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Phone scams and more
I previously mentioned the ‘heavy breather’ who used to ring our London phone number. He wasn’t doing what the many, many callers are doing nowadays, of course – he wasn’t trying to scam me into sending him money or giving … Continue reading
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Phones I have known
When I was 4 or 5, we lived in a house on Sunset Avenue in Zanesville. I only have a few memories of that house and things that happened there – we moved to Cincinnati when I was seven. One … Continue reading
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How embarrassing!
I just found that I’ve already written a blog bout my allotment, using some of the same phrases, some years ago! I must be getting old to have forgotten.😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴
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Growing stuff
If you’ve read about Market Cross Cottage, you know there was no ‘garden’, just a small paved yard with a small area of soil in which was growing a wonderful passion flower up the stone wall on the left – … Continue reading
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White Haired Woman 