yet again. Palermo 3 Yesterday, May the first, Labour Day, was a very variable day. It started off well. We went to the local market – very crowded and noisy; lots of people enjoying barbecues of fish and round spiral sausages. The aroma of food grilling, mixed with the scents of heat soaked people and […]Read Post ›
Or Palmero, as yesterday’s stewardess insisted on calling it. Here we are, glorious warm mild breezy weather, (though likely to change as my ever optimistic!!! husband would have me believe.) We had one breakfast today in a very local cafe and then immediately went in search of the next. We got to the theatre square […]Read Post ›
Not to be forgotten As I write this on Sunday afternoon, this year’s Remembrance Ceremony is drawing to a close. I was sorry not to be able to go, as I have been most years since 1978, when I went for the first time,. Jacek and I went together with my mother and a friend […]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 ›
For M Whatever happened to those earrings? I found a box of photos the other day and I could not for the life of me remember why this particular selection of snaps was there. They may be duplicates of photos I have put into albums, (which I am in the slow process of rehousing into […]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 ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 