Passed on to me by D-d - the opening pages of her Writing Book when she went into Year 2 -


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ani_mama was talking, on her journal, about memories of childhood favourite meals that were cheap and low effort. I was going to simply comment but, as I said, I realised it brought back so many memories that I thought it better to do it as a post ( Read more... )

There have been a couple of programmes on the history channels in the past couple of days about the Evacuation from Dunkirk. And then it struck me that it is the 80th anniversary this week - hence the programmes of course ( Read more... )

In a comment to epiphyta a couple of days ago I mentioned my great-grandmother's funeral and promised to expand. This is the story as told to me by my mother who was just 17 at the time ( Read more... )

This is a reminiscing post. cairistiona7 posted the meme yesterday which asked about games you played, and your favourite pastime, as a child and I began to answer on her journal and realised it was becoming post length - so here we go - with added pictures ( Read more... )

I mentioned that there is a family story that I was reminded of by the display about Sophia Goulden at Sulby ( Read more... )

I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror by the front door earlier and realised I hadn't brushed my hair; which is why there is a mirror there, of course ( Read more... )

So - I was out in the garage tidying a bit and, when I took stuff off what I thought was probably an empty box, I found these guys!


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I was at a funeral today. Leslie Guthrie was our minister at church for many years - he had been there for a couple of years before I returned to the island in 1988 and remained until he retired in January 2009 ( Read more... )

An incident in the Churches' Bookshop a couple of weeks ago reminded me of something in my past, and I have told this to a few people since, to find that some are appalled and others laughed.

See what you think...
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