‘Life’s a Journey’ Week 20 Nostalgia link-up (theme preview)
Next week’s theme will be “My first holiday without parents!” (Linky to be posted Tuesday, 29th May) Can you recall the first time(s) you went away on holiday without your […]
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‘Life’s a Journey’ weekly nostalgia link-up (theme preview)
This week’s theme will be “Becoming a Parent.” (Linky to be posted Tuesday, 22nd May) Can you remember the moment it happened? Were you prepared for the changes that followed? […]
Are you part of the Nation of Storytellers?
I was approached recently by the good people from Blurb who have launched a campaign to get people writing down their family stories. It is said that, in an average lifetime, […]
16,425 Mornings
Today is my Birthday. I am celebrating it with a clear blue sky and an ever-diminishing number of birthday cards (apparently a direct correlation between increasing number of years and […]
‘Life’s a Journey’ weekly nostalgia link-up (theme preview)
Next week’s theme will be “Old Teen Magazines.” (Linky to be posted Tuesday, 15th May) Maybe you were a subscriber to ‘Jackie’? Or perhaps you ‘looked out’ for Look-In every […]
‘Life’s a Journey’ weekly nostalgia link-up (theme preview)
Next week’s theme (to be posted Tuesday, 8th May) will be “Rollermania! Those Bay City Boys” Remember those cheeky Tartan-clad boys from Edinburgh? Did you pledge to marry Alan or […]
The Lo-Tech Times of Childhood (Life’s a Journey Series, Week 16)
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). When I was growing up, I […]
‘Life’s a Journey’ weekly link-up (preview)
Next week’s theme (to be posted Tuesday, 1st May) will be “Lo-Tech Times” Remember when you closed the lid on your record player for the last time and went all […]
Mini Memoirs: Kate Winslet (Wha? It’s Titanic week!)
Since nostalgia is my game, and since it would be churlish to let this April pass without so much as a sniff of a mention of Titanic on the 100th […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Blog 101: Things that send me into an irrational state of bonkers
Perhaps it’s Nature, or maybe it’s Nurture, but I was raised to talk proper and since I went to a Grammar School it would seem unfortunate if I didn’t adhere […]
‘Life’s a Journey’ series. Week 4: Bestest Friends
Last week in the series, we discussed your earliest school work. Less ‘things’, more ‘people’ from our lives this week….. I have met an awful lot of people in my […]
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 […]
