by Valerie | Nov 1, 2016 | Personal Memories
Well, I have done the deed on Halloween and now I risk the haunting! Many years ago my mother bought several items from a house contents sale at a medieval manor house in Ickenham. I was about eleven or twelve at the time, so it was in the late ‘fifties. Among...
by Valerie | May 15, 2016 | Jezebel and Myschka, Lexy, Rhyming Poetry
Jezzie’s apple tree is in full bloom again this year. What a shame that she is no longer here to walk me to the tree each day and stop to enjoy the windfall apples the tree will drop. I remember how she used to drag me on to see if there were some apples...
by Valerie | Apr 23, 2016 | Creative Writing, Personal Memories
Picture yourself in a boat on a river. It is late on a lovely summer’s evening that was spent with friends. In this case it was on a very big river, the Thames at Twickenham, 1959. However there were no tangerine trees or marmalade skies, and certainly no...
by Valerie | Aug 22, 2015 | Personal Memories
Once upon a time we were all pupils of TCS 1956-1963, mostly from different towns in Middlesex, some from different backgrounds, but all at roughly the same educational standard, having passed our 11 plus. We gradually found friends in the classes we were allocated to...
by Valerie | Aug 17, 2015 | Personal Memories
This year I have planted my Busy Lizzies in my old dog’s chewed up basket, which sits in pride of place outside my patio doors. The tatty old basket serves not just as a memorial to my lovely old dog, Myschka, but also as something to cheer me up as I open my...
by Valerie | May 2, 2015 | My Garden, Rhyming Poetry, Seasons
“Never cast a clout until May be out!” The temperature is without a doubt the coldest I’ve known at this time of year although Hawthorn is out and May is here. Cold winds are blowing from the east or north. At least some of May flowers have come...
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