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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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A quick update on tinnitus
This afternoon the phone rang, I answered. It was for me from a jolly fellow who wanted to help me get back my PPI. His mate had rung yesterday and I had told him that I had never had PPI … Continue reading
Where DOES the time go? Twitter!
I said to Julian (husband) this morning, “There just isn’t enough time to do all the stuff I need to do.” [weeding, housework, blogging, clearing out my old stock room so it can be used for stacking his and my … Continue reading
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