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Future tense vs Past tense. (And, after reading below, see the following Addendum!)
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? At eighty years of age I absolutely know that there are more years behind me than there are before me. Of course, I think of the past … Continue reading
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The Best Gifts
What is the greatest gift someone could give you? If I could have a wish or two from a fairy godmother I would ask for World Peace first then I’d ask, probably, for clear eye-sight, better hearing and to be … Continue reading
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Education from birth to the other end!
What colleges have you attended? Living, as I do, in a country which is not the USA, any college I went to would be completely unknown to most of my readers. Indeed, the two colleges I went to have disappeared … Continue reading
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Hands, Knees and……What?
It started when I reached 63. We had been in Broadstairs less than a year. I’d had a very mild tummy pain for a couple of days and Julian urged me to go to the doctor. I thought it was … Continue reading
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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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White Haired Woman 