‘Blue’: Girl Guides, Revisited (Life’s a Journey, week 11)
This post is part of a weekly series of ‘link-up’ Posts which reflect on life’s journey, old memories and family stories (see below for more info). I noticed last week […]
Category Archives: History
Joe’s Letters Home, WWII: Punishing schedules & High Jinx
A bit of background This emotional journey will revisit the stories of my Uncle Joe once again. I hope you will enjoy them, and think of your family as you […]
Life’s a Journey, Week 10: Tying the Knot (Again)
This Post is part of a ‘Join in and Link Up’ Blog series which celebrates life’s little memories – come on in, the water’s fine (see below)! With time and […]
Joe’s Letters Home, WWII; Letter 6, 13 Jan ’44.
A bit of background This emotional journey will revisit the stories of my Uncle Joe once again. I hope you will enjoy them, and think of your family as you […]
Life’s a Journey. Week 9: Favourite childhood books
Having paid homage to your (and my) Grandparents last week, I thought we’d trot a little further down the Lane of Memory this week with some literary indulgence. What were […]
Letters Home, WWII; Letter 5, 10 Jan ’44.
A bit of background This emotional journey will revisit the stories of my Uncle Joe once again. I hope you will enjoy them, and think of your family as you […]
Letters Home, WWII; Letter 4, 8 Jan ’44.
A bit of background This emotional journey will revisit the stories of my Uncle Joe once again. I hope you will enjoy them, and think of your family as you […]
Letters Home, WWII; Letter 3, 5th January 1944.
A bit of background I have been working up to writing this long series of transcribed letters for some time. It is to be an emotional journey, revisiting these stories […]
Letters Home, WWII; Letter 2, 31 Dec 1943.
A bit of background I have been working up to writing this long series of transcribed letters for some time. It is to be an emotional journey, revisiting these stories […]
Life’s a Journey. Week 5: Teenage Crushes
Look, if I’m going to be totally honest with you about this, then there were more than three. But in case anyone I actually knew in 1978 is tuning in […]
Letters Home, WWII; Letter 1, 29 Dec 1943.
I have been working up to writing this long series of transcribed letters for some time. It is to be an emotional journey, revisiting these stories once again. I hope […]
The Heirloom
I’m not entirely sure how I came to have this in my possession. I do remember that, some time after Mum passed away, my Dad finally found the strength to […]
Motivation Monday – Declaring War on The War
My photography resolution for the next few weeks does not involve the camera. It’s a War on scanning. Me versus the black machine and a large pile of precious letters […]
Mothers, Brothers, Aunties & Grandmas = Family
Brothers I have a brother. If I had been allowed to grow my hair long enough for pigtails as a child, he would most certainly have pulled them. Or at […]
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 […]
