Yesterday this lovely man, my father-in-law would have been 100 years old. He actually died almost a quarter of a century ago, though he did live to see in this millennium. I haven’t ever written a lot about him, but today I thought I would make up a little for lost time. I first met […]Read Post ›
Marysia is ten years old. How did that happen? She is wearing a teeshirt, that belonged to her brother or sister which I brought back from Salamanca in 1992. It has worn well. I think it lasted many years after that. We are in Menaggio by Lake Como which happens to be one of my […]Read Post ›
On this day, two years ago our youngest daughter got married to her lovely young man. We were all thrilled by the event, but spent the run up to it slightly concerned that we would have to make some uplifting speeches. We worked quite hard on them, and when I found them today I thought […]Read Post ›
It promised to rain. But I have an umbrella. It was an early start (for me, anyway). But our house is only a couple of hundred yards away. The weather was looking iffier. But I wanted to go. So rainbow umbrella in hand, my most comfortable green shoes, warm yellow coat and blue gloves, (unlikely […]Read Post ›
The box I was looking in yesterday has brought up a load of memories. Those tropical brown sheets for a start. They were very expensive. I remember buying them as a little reward to myself for becoming Head of English at Ealing Green High School for boys in about 1990. This was taken in 1993. […]Read Post ›
It’s been a while since I reproduced any of my grandfather’s memoir. You might want to read parts 1 to 6 again. Here my grandfather has language problems. The area he has been living in has changed governments and states several times. He is still very young, and is not used to meeting new people, […]Read Post ›
1928-2022 Today she would have been 96. She only died two years ago after a long and varied life, full of difficulties, and tragedy, which she overcame by sheer force of will, I think, to eventually gain happiness within her too short marriage (She was widowed just at the moment when she thought she would […]Read Post ›
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 ›
Happy New Year After my wild New Year’s Eve celebrations last night – smoked salmon canapes, champagne – just me and my husband- I was in bed well before midnight – I was a bit at a loss today. I’d done the dusting and the washing and had finished my book, so I was mindlessly (should […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 