Grandmothers -part two
Grandmothers -part two.
Grandmothers -part two
But back to circa 1956. My grandma has graduated to a hospital, my mother is no longer a child volunteer and my father has been honourably demobilized, given a minuscule grant, and told to get on with it. I am three years old and quiveringly anticipating this grandmatriarchal visitation. Physically she was very large. […]Read Post ›
Grandmothers – written in 1978 part one
Grandmothers – written in 1978 part one.
My mother: In her own words, a short article she was asked to write for her school magazine in 2000.
Grazyna Lomnicka Seydlitz, primo voto Wysoki I was born in Lwow on the 28th November 1929. where I went to school until the outbreak of the war in 1939. My sister Alicja was three at the time. My father, a lawyer, who was secretary at the LwowPolytechnicalUniversity, was called up […]Read Post ›
George Sand
George Sand, mentor, friend and lover of Chopin, went to my school , St Augustine’s Priory when it was still in Neuilly near Paris. The nuns were very embarrassed when I discovered this in 1965 because they were so ashamed of her. Not only did she live with a man, she dressed like a man, […]Read Post ›
Grandmothers – written in 1978 part one
Grandmothers For K, A, M … I was blessed with four. Which means I was twice as lucky as the average child and four times as fortunate as the average orphan. An advantage of four times seventy years against my erstwhile seven. Formidable calculations, guaranteed to put off the average innumerate reader. Be not […]Read Post ›
Serendipity
For JH Serendipity was the name of a very new and exciting shop in Notting Hill Gate in the sixties. I never actually went inside because I had no money, but I would press my nose to the window and look longingly at the mixture of colourful home furnishings and useless but pretty […]Read Post ›
What an excellent lesson!
This was written in response to an invitation from the BBC to write a short broadcast on an aspect of my career. Never broadcast though! “What an excellent lesson!” Relief surged through my body, as I could not stop myself grinning inanely at this lively blonde woman who was prepared to acknowledge me as […]Read Post ›
Egerton Court
Sunshine
(For GD) Today it is sunny for the first time in ages. But still cold. Very cold. Yet the very word sunshine makes me smile. And the word for smile in Spanish is sonrisa. And sonrisa is like sunrise. The most beautiful time of day. Dawn. Every morning when I get up I watch the […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 