Author Archives: Candy

Yesterday I had a great deal of trouble trying to publish the post entitled, Nov 3rd, Judy’s Real Birthday and, eventually had to delete it and re-publish it. (It has appeared now with its spacing almost correct and with all its … Continue reading →

I finished my post called ‘Judy’s Real Birthday’ this afternoon. When I published it the first time, for some reason a large chunk toward the end was missing. I spent long minutes fixing it when I found out, saved the … Continue reading →

I was looking through some old photos today and I found a photo of one of the faces of the market cross. I’ll have to change my story slightly because I had forgotten that one could see two faces in … Continue reading →

My mother and father married at the end of 1941, I was born in 1943, and my little sister, Judy, in 1944, eighteen months later. I think it must have exhausted our mother to have two children quite so close … Continue reading →

Twenty days ago, or so, I wrote about my sciatica attack. I am pleased to report that it has got progressively better over the last two weeks and is, essentially, over.  I started taking the amitriptyline that the doc prescribed, … Continue reading →

In 2005, we retired to the seaside. My grand-daughter, Chloë, had begged for a dog since she was old enough to realise that it wasn’t really Sandy, the cat, who talked to her on the phone and I had promised … Continue reading →

Until I was in my 60’s I almost always had at least one cat. When we lived in Queensway we had one whose name I think was Madam. She had to be an indoor cat as we lived on the … Continue reading →