Don’t forget to remember your Mother
I took my mother for granted, but it’s never too late to remember…. 1. The way she wore her make-up. Just lipstick & mascara. 2. Short-hand typing. Marvellous swirly foreign […]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
What did you do this week?
Ok, peeps, I am putting my foot down. Ouch. Now, I know that you understand the importance of a family memory. After all, you saved that picture of your little […]
Childhood’s Simple Pleasures
Recently, my small, wise 4 year old child achieved a milestone. He got a new scooter and he learned the art of balance. It was a little tiny jump into […]
School? Fun? Not when I was a kid, Miss.
It is 11.11.11. (By the way, did you know that in America they write it 11.11.11 – weird huh?) An event which only comes along about every 700 years or […]
I barely remember the 5th of November
Bonfire Night. Well, I had one too many vinos for starters, and a punishing pain to my left temple on Sunday morning told me I’m too old for all this […]
Oh, what a luvverly war!
Wartime wardrobes come to Peacetime Pickering! A glorious Autumn morning greeted my family last weekend. A buzz of excitement filled the house as the kids remembered that today we had […]
Spookin’ in Suburbia
When I was a little girl, growing up in 1970s UK, there was no such thing as a Halloween holiday. Halloween was just one of those days that came and […]
