time flies

I have memories of many years ago that are just like snapshots. I think the earliest ones from the age of 2 up to about 11 are of the snapshot variety. Anything after that may have more depth and detail.

I asked my mother what I was doing on VE day today, the 60th Anniversary. She needed coaxing because her long term memory is deteriorating. Her short term memory is almost gone altogether. (more…)

When I was a lad in the fifties there was no such thing as ‘Trick or Treat’. What there was in Leeds was something called ‘Mischief Night’. I think that this was a northern thing because since I came south I asked friends about it and they had never heard of ‘Mischief Night’.

It was a bugger living up north. You know the story; we lived in a hole in the road and ate gravel for supper etc, just as Monty Python described.

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