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Category Archives: Nostalgia
Thoughts for mothering Sunday.
In Sorrento I stopped at a little shop in the maze of lanes to admire the numerous cameo brooches in the window. This is a major area for shell cameo carving and has been for a long time, I inherited … Continue reading
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I went to several fancy dress parties as a child where the wittiest, most up-to-date outfit was a cardboard box with a squared-off rectangular hole in the front and two bottle caps stuck to the side. This item, worn on … Continue reading
On friendship.
The best job I ever had, on the grounds of hilarity alone, was teaching in a language college. Students of all ages and nations learned together, often teaching the teacher in the process. The majority of students were young adults, … Continue reading
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The story of the five pound pom.
In a six-street coastal town in Australia I learned the meaning of gratitude from a £5 pom. I had ducked into the junk shop out of curiosity and the heat. The mix was as eclectic as you could envisage. Right … Continue reading
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1963
A new group of popular musicians, called the Beatles, appeared at the Sunderland Empire. A group of schoolgirls, called Anne, Susan and Jane went on the bus and in defiance of health and safety regulations, which fortunately hadn’t been invented … Continue reading
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