You could be forgiven if you find this hard to believe - I do!. As Victor Meldrew would say, **I don’t believe it!**  For those of you who are not familiar with the British sit com ‘One Foot in the Grave’ check the link for a small clip of the catchphrase.
Just two days after the [...]

Our cat door/flap has been looking a bit fragile lately, and today it finally broke.
Replacing a cat door is a simple enough thing, you would think. You’d be wrong to think that when it’s our cat flap!  It went like this.
2pm.
Mo: “Babs, help me mark where the screws go for this new cat flap.”
Babs: (going [...]

It was March 15th 1969 - My big day.  Everything had gone according to plan. The house was a buzz of busyness and excitement.  One sister did my nails, another my makeup, and my dress hung on the wardrobe door in readiness.  Today I would find out if my dressmaking skills were good enough.  Would [...]

I got this ‘A Fun Blog’ award last week, from Jay thedeppeffect. Thank you very much Jay.
On another note.  I have something else to thank Jay for.  She kindly gave me permission to use one of her photographs in my sidebar.  I saw the photo in her post and had the cheek to ask her [...]

It was nearing the end of 1968, the date for our wedding was fixed and I now started to think about my wedding dress. I knew I wasn’t going to buy a ready made dress.  I planned to make my own.  I had been making my own clothes for a while now, so I was [...]

Well I know who he was, at least I have just found out who he was. I was reading grannygrimble’s (my sisters) blog the other day and I discovered that this man was/is my Godfather. He was an American sailor, who was dating one of my aunts at the time I was to [...]

I saw this on That Grrl’s blog, and just had to have it on mine.  Well I did, didn’t I?

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Now we were in the late sixties, and things were really ’swinging’ as they said. Some things more than others, where some were concerned ;O)
Derek, a friend of Jim’s from school, worked in the advertising industry as a copywriter.  He was only 19 years old and was on the highest salary ever paid to a [...]

For those of you that probably won’t know, ‘Fings ain’t what they used to be’ is an old Cockney song ;O)
I went to a party last night.  It was a great party but I had two disappointments which were both to do with food.  It was a lovely spread that was all very fresh.  The [...]

Since my last post was fraught with stress, I decided to lighten up a bit. Below is something that may be infectious.  Just click the little arrow and turn your speakers on ;O)
The doodle is for Kathy!
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