Just thought I’d break from the 1950’s and post something different. I used to do a lot of drawing and loved working in pencil. Not colour pencils, but plain black pencil. I just loved working with the varying softness of the lead.
Portraits were my thing. I started by copying faces from [...]

“Come on, let’s go and explore” Sandie shouted. We all stopped what we were doing and followed Sandie, who knew just where we were to explore. It was another warm sunny day and we didn’t want to be indoors on days like this. We turned a corner and started up [...]

Today I was given my first award of this beautiful red rose by drowsey monkey drowseymonkey
I would like to thank her so much for making me feel accepted into the blogging world.
Red rose has number of thorns in it
when it pint your finger it hurts
Everyday in my life is just like red roses.
Sometimes life is [...]

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“Hey! look down there, I can see a sword!”  We all pushed forward peering down into a dark hole.  “What’s that over there?” someone said, pointing into an even darker corner.  “It looks like bones to me” said another.  We crammed up against the railing to see better.  “I bet there’s even dead bodies down [...]

We were all sitting round the table eating our tea and suddenly one of my sisters let out a terrible scream … we all screamed … she screamed some more … we all screamed some more.  There she was, looking terrified with a fork hanging out of her mouth.  The fork swinging to and fro [...]

The best day of the week! Sundays in our house gave us all such great memories. By now it was the mid to late 50’s when we were a little more affluent!
That wonderful aroma of roast lamb wafting through the house, our tummies rumbling with hunger, I went into the kitchen. Mum, who had [...]