This is one of my favourite photos of my stepfather, my mother’s second husband. I have written about him before, but as today would have been his 93rd birthday I thought I would celebrate it a bit, and show you one or two things that I have found. The photo is one of two portraits […]Read Post ›
Today would have been my paternal grandmother’s 128th birthday. She died in 1978, so quite a while ago, but I remember her well. I have written about her before, but this morning I remembered that I had a copy of a certificate somewhere, and thought I would look at it more carefully. It’s a copy of […]Read Post ›
I opened my desk yesterday thinking I would do a tiny bit of decluttering, and managed not an iota. I found so many interesting things, and important things, none of which I wanted to get rid of. Many I had totally forgotten about. Like this envelope. I didnt recogise the handwriting in the first instance […]Read Post ›
Traditionally a time for reflection and fun, I thought I would have fun reflecting on the year by looking at all the photos I have taken this year on my phone. No, I am not going to show you them all, but I have judiciously picked out one or two from each month which have a particular […]Read Post ›
For the last few years most of my books and papers have been in the attic and I could not get at them. This weekend I had a very pleasant surprise. My son had brought down several boxes and I have had the loveliest time refamiliarising myself with their contents. I cried when I saw […]Read Post ›
This is the next stage of my grandfather’s life. He is not yet four, but has suffered more than most people in a lifetime. He bases his stories on documents which he had. Unfortunately they are lost. On the 6th October 1879 Martin the woodman , on behalf of my father, tried to reach an […]Read Post ›
Many years ago my father showed me a few pages of his father’s autobiography, which he had translated into Polish. As a child I was not particularly interested – I could not read Polish well enough, and in any case my father had already told me the most interesting snippets. But then my father died […]Read Post ›
I’m in Valencia at the moment, having been whisked here by husband to try and forget about my impending cataract removal and to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary. It’s been a great time for celebrations – I was seventy 3 weeks ago and had the most fabulous surprises, dinners, parties etc. it’s nice getting old, […]Read Post ›
for MH Mr J storms into my class room and yells, “Sit down everyone! Why are you all out of your seats?” Mrs K thinks – if you hadn’t moved me to the room opposite your office you wouldn’t be so upset now! Mrs K draws herself up to her full five feet one and […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 