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Houston Floods
I am not in America so can’t do much in the way of flood-aid but please, if you have the wherewithal, consider going to http://www.houston-strong.com and sending a donation of things that will help rather than money which, at the moment, … Continue reading
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California Dreamin’, living in an empty town, 1950’s
Those of you who have read my other blogs will remember that when we left Reno we went to stay with my grandfather and his second wife in California. After a month or so, due to my mother’s not getting … Continue reading
PARIS! Where Did SHE Come From (Part two and a half) and some glimpses into the future.
We arrived in Paris in monsieur P’s Citroen DS in the early evening and my clearest memory of that glorious moment is l’Arc de Triomphe as we drove up the Champs Elysées in the dusk. I fell in love with … Continue reading
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Tagged 2CV, couchette, crevettes, Les Halles, Nice, Paris, rallye, Sacré Coeur, tripes à l'oignon
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A quick fix re: Where Does SHE Come From, Part Two
Please note that the above post which I published on the 22nd of August, appeared under the date 8th August and all the links went there. Now that I’ve edited the post and put in the correct publication date, the … Continue reading
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OMG – Who’s that looking out of the mirror at me?
I got up this morning, went for a pee and glanced into the tiny mirror over the basin in the loo. There was this old woman, old woman’s hair sticking up on one side, plastered to her head on the … Continue reading
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“Where Did SHE come from” Part 2 – The white haired woman grows up (a bit)
After our six weeks in Mrs Angus’s boarding house we moved into a sixth-floor flat in Queensway, just off the Bayswater Road. The flat was okay – it had three bedrooms, a very small bathroom, a large through lounge-diner and … Continue reading
Why, now that I’m old, I shouldn’t drink a whole bottle of wine!
Last week I was going to meet a friend from my college years whom I hadn’t seen for fifty two years or thereabouts. We were meeting in west London which is around two hours from home so I asked my … Continue reading
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The White Haired Woman’s View of the World Today – August 14, 2017
I’ve been following the terrible news from Charlottesville for a couple of days; I’ve been seeing it on tv, on Twitter, on Facebook, in the newspapers; I’ve been looking at websites I would never have even realised existed; I’ve even … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlottesville, Christian right, fascists, haters, leftie, Trump
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Perseid showers!
In August, 1982 my future husband, my eighteen year old daughter and I sat outside my mother’s house watching the sky hoping to see some shooting stars. I knew that every year around the beginning to middle of August, the … Continue reading
“Where did SHE come from?” says reader. Interesting question! (Or not) Part one
(I’m going to try not to mention any names that can be easily identified – some members of my family might not want you to know they’re related to me!) My mother and father were both ‘beautiful young things’ back … Continue reading
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