Autobiography
Lean Times.
Last year was the poorest I’ve ever been, in my life. Before that Paul and myself had juggled our money, bought mainly reduced food, went to jumble...
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City
Words scrawled in white, red brick walls as canvas, angles of cheap, old buildings cut shapes in the overcast sky. Plastic windows magnify struggling...
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Leggings - a Shopping tale
When I'd finished piling through the adverts in the 'friend' last week, I decided to go down to HB to pick up a British Legion Poppy bird feeder. The...
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Conned? 5
You thought this story was over, didn't you? Well so did I, until I opened my computer on Tuesday morning to find an email from my bank, telling me I...
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life blog my ex part 2
We, my ex and I, first moved into nursing accommodation and then a house, before we both decided to get a mortgage. The maisonette rested on the...
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life-blog My ex part 1
My ex … where to begin? What to say? Why write this? (sigh) We met, that is my ex and I, in 1991. It was just as I started what I thought was my...
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Conned? 4
Sunday I was expecting another of the team, this time, the man who would actually install the system. He came late, but only by three hours or so...
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A. Lone
Sat alone just wondering, Is it me why life's a funny thing, On days my heart may want to sing, yet times when death, I'd want to bring.
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Conned? 3
Saturday was the day for the man who needed to clean out my currentheating system, to get ready for the new product, due to be installed on Sunday...
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Leggings: Bed Knobs & Broomsticks!
“We'll have to help a bit, or we'll get the whole blame for this!”
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Conned? 2
I often don't sleep well. There is nothing wrong with me physically to prevent it, but I do spend a lot of my life worrying about things that have...
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Conned? 1
About two weeks ago, I was watching TV and the phone rang. I don't have caller identity on my phone, so I answer it every time. At suppertime, 6 p.m...
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Sleepless
My toes curl As your fingers against My back, make Tracks like braces, metal Teeth, smile as though Caught in a trap. A fox screams, that Blood...
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Blasphemy
Another piece by my late daughter, Julia (Overthetop1). I would like to make it clear that Julia was a very caring person, and this was, and is, in no way intended to cause offence to those who don't share her beliefs at the time this was written. Coral (seashore)
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Leggings - The Nightly Sale and the Whisky Run!
Kitty laughed, quite delighted by all this madness...
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Our Florida Trip Part Three
Dear diary...in the blink of an eye I can recall one particular day that stands out on our Florida trip, though because this was 1990 it's hard to...
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Bad news
Somehow nothing stops. Nobody else feels the anger. Nobody else shouts into their pillows Or stares blankly at white walls. People just keep walking...
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Leggings – the Importance of Mussels...
Above the Owls winced.
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Visiting Aberedw Rocks
Leaving home in the milky mist, blue sky emerges as we travel west, park in a village close to the Wye, little river Edw bubbling by to meet the big …
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Daddy issues
My dad is wonderful My dad is great Perfection combination of farther and mate, Always just and always fair Tries his best to love and to care. But...
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Our Trip To Florida Part Two
Dear diary...the Magic Kingdom had left me with a feeling of much enthusiasm and anticipation of what we would see next, especially when we visited...
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Infectious
Another of my late daughter Julia's writings (Overthetop1). A dark moment in a relationship.
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Our Florida Trip
Dear diary...visiting Florida for the first time back in 1990 was an experience I'll never forget. We'd put our three cats into a cattery the day...
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The Red Leaf
There is one red leaf on the tree hanging like an open mouth whilst a pea-green one is on the verge of growing up into yellow Tinkling’s of rain...
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Leggings - Look Who's out of Work.
Better watch your daughters or your young colleagues.... please!
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Moment In Time
Florida 1990 Fragile breezes dance across my face as Ocean waves shimmy a light belly dance, gyrating these shores where many have wandered leaving...
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Shitty day in Peru
I was watching story telling videos when I came across one of a lady who had planned to commit suicide but instead found solace in a book. A friend...
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Legging- extra notes.
“Who does she think she is!” Yelled the Hitler furiously, “she'll be spoiling Yuletide soon!”
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Bryn doesn't carry passengers
There are two ways of describing Bryn. A negative description would be that he is ‘nervous’. A more positive description of his behaviour would be...
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Getting 'clean'
10 days clear 10 days living in fear of myself, I need to take care of my health, no meds, more dread, more voices in my head. More cuts, more scars...
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Leggings – The Worst Curse!
“Yes, Dragon Hall, I paid for it with my writing and odd jobs. I used to teach English classes there. I had a teaching cert. Then.”
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Fresh Beginnings ( Pt 4 )
Dear Diary...life was dissolving one day into another. I was starting to feel like that hamster on a wheel that goes around and around. There was no...
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Leggings – A Naturalist's end.
Leggings – A Naturalist's end. Another Norfolk story: I don't recall who told me this one. It's old... although perhaps still in living memory. This...
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Worth The Wait
Many months ago you took my peace and strolled Out of my life but never out of my heart I couldn't let you go I always knew you would come back I...
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when I was young
I have my dad to thank for these wonderful memories. I hope you enjoy them.
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Leggings - Fake Trails...
Can I work this one out? Not without a pickled egg...
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Fresh Beginnings ( Pt 3 )
Dear diary...my first year working at the car parts factory went pretty quickly. With Christmas coming and going, the festive season had been much...
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The Return
Another piece by my daughter, Julia (Overthetop1). It's important to me that she lives on through her writing so I am wading through a fat file - some scribbles on backs of envelopes, others neatly typed. Not an easy task, but an essential one. Coral Jane (seashore)
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Selfies
You extroverts make me look boring your audiences always applauding we're blind to each other's colour on the way From your selfie stick to my...
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Leggings - Stormont Castle
So Garlic.
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Eighteen part one
Depression. The word gets thrown around so much these days that its almost commonplace to know someone with it, or who claims they have it. Ditto...
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Fresh Beginnings ( Pt 2 )
Dear Diary...one of my fondest memories of when I was in the Woman's Refuge back in the early 1980s, was when I and some of the other women would sit...
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Grow up or give up.
We all make mistakes. I'm not sure of this is one of them.
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Leggings - Last three weeks...
Leggings, Lets meet up... I've been....
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Des Moines, 1979
Chapter 1 The shoes in the corner smelled like iron. Perhaps I compassionately sensed the last vestiges of slaughter from the tanned leather that was...
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Fresh Beginnings
Dear Diary...There were times in my life where I never thought I'd settle down, constantly searching for new challenges, wanting to experience as...
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The garden of earthly preoccupation
Guilt is sunning itself in the garden. Upturned plates on supermarket steaks deny the flies, whom, I’m convinced, would indulge, given half a chance...
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Love is Forever
Love is Forever when I look at my sister visiting me from Hamilton, Ontario and I am very happy. She has had more than a few challenges through the...
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Yachta Mache - 13
My sister, Judy, came to visit in June, and as she was very nervous about the whole thing, she talked one of her friends into coming with her. They...
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The George on Holyport Green and a special Landlord
I first met Ray Binding when I went into his pub, The George on Holyport Green . He was a small man with a cherubic face whom his daughter likened to...
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A TALE OF SIMPLE COUNTRY FOLK AND A PAIR OF LONDON TOWNIES
On Sunday 17 th July 2016 the other half and me set out for exploration of the Beds/Bucks countryside. We were actually aiming for St Barnabas Church...
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Yachta Mache - 12
Kathy was the first of us to get married. Her wedding to Dan was the 23 rd of April, and she asked me to play the organ. I had been playing the...
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A Voyage Through London
London Competition entry.
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Yachta Mache - 11
We were applying for jobs by this stage of the year. Our work would finish on July 15 th , and we would be ready to go to a new job by the beginning...
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Yachta Mache - 10
I mentioned before the man who had written poetry for me – Hector, although at this stage I hadn't realised it had been written by him. Around this...
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Hands
Your hands were huge, Thumbs thick, Hairs sprouting from Knuckles. It is raining as we drive And the tyres make Immediately forgotten tracks Through...
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Yachta Mache - 9
Shortly after the new year started, we were invited to a party at one of the male nurse's apartment. We did very little socialising with the nurses...
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Yachta Mache - 8
We interns were expected to use our initiative to decorate the hospital over the Christmas period. So I made a poster, with the caption, “Give...
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Yachta Mache - 7
By this time, we had switched rotations, and Carolyn and I left the Diet Therapy office. But we had heard that records were kept on all of us, and...
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Yachta Mache - 6
November, 1965 One of the perks of being an officer in a uniformed service, was going to the Post Exchange - PX - for cheap items. I bought a...
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