- 7 days ago
- 9 min
Holidays
The start of the school holidays had that special Friday evening feeling. Routine vanished and who knew what the next day might bring....
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- Jul 17
- 6 min
Moving into Top Class - and the dreaded 11+
Somehow, impossibly, my eldest grandson will be moving into his school's top class after the summer holidays. This sparked all the mixed...
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- Jun 27
- 6 min
Real Trains
‘If you fell in there you’d be dead in two minutes’ said a voice very close to my ear. Instinctively I pulled back although I wasn't in...
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- Jun 13
- 4 min
Ballet classes
When I was seven I was taken to see a film of the Bolshoi Ballet’s production of Swan Lake starring Galina Ulanova. I was enchanted. I...
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- Jun 5
- 6 min
Weddings
When my mother told me that my uncle Bert was getting married and that I was to be a bridesmaid, I was ecstatic. I was finally going to...
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- May 21
- 6 min
Pets
Not long after my appendix operation, it had been agreed, after much pestering, that I could have my own dog. There had been a few...
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- May 13
- 2 min
Lovely posting!
Came across this lovely posting in a Facebook group 'Growing up in Cheadle Hulme' EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES Pasta had not been...
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