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Month: June 2020

The World of Work – Potato-picking

I was about eight I think when I did my first paid work, not counting selling my grandmother’s cigarettes to her friends when they came e for a gossip for a penny each.  That money went into my money box and there it stayed as I had absolutely nothing to spend it on.  But when […]Read Post ›

World of work – the next stage

Babysitting was obviously not going to be a career, so I needed to think again. After the exams I was finally free. Living at home with my mother and stepfather in South Kensington but still needing cash. So I went to work. I joined an agency and was sent out to the Folio Society. Somewhere […]Read Post ›

The world of work – beginnings.

I left school having taken my A levels just before I was eighteen. I spent my eighteenth birthday babysitting for a friend of my mother’s who desperately needed my help and left me to care for her one year old and five year old. I couldn’t have been less interested and it was only the […]Read Post ›

What an a*****le!

I don’t usually use bad language and never write it but sometimes for artistic integrity you have to indicate what was said.  A true story: A couple of weeks ago I decided to wait for a bus home as I had already walked about ten kilometres that day, and thought I could do with a […]Read Post ›

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