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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
A quick mention of the book I’ve just finished
Normally, as I’ve said in one of my blogs, I read mysteries and thrillers but, once in a while I read ‘real’ literature. A few moments ago I finished reading Patrick Gale’s Notes from an Exhibition which was first published … Continue reading
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Update on ‘Who is Cassell Rue’
You will see in the comments that my friend, Janet, who is a whiz at genealogy, has found one man named Cassell Rue participating in a wedding in 1962 in Ohio. This is likely to be the same guy I … Continue reading
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Who is Cassell Rue?
When I was around twelve or thirteen someone gave me a slim red book with the title MY HIM BOOK. The book had around fifty pages and in it I could mention all the boys I had met, those whom … Continue reading
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