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Category Archives: family
Fish, Spratts, Barbed Wire & Trikes
During the war years my mother used to make a trip to Sunderland by train and visit her Aunts Cissie and Sally and then her Mother-in – Law, Esther (nee Hopps) at Wingate, a pit village just a few miles away. On … Continue reading
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On Being A War Baby
The day I was born the second world war had been under way for some 10 months, the army had been rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk, and Hitler was making preparations to invade. Operation Sea Lion as it was called … Continue reading
Antigone, June 1996 – September 2015
Antigone died yesterday between 16:15 and 16:30, aged 19 years and 3 months. She was euthanised on my say so over the phone. I did not say goodbye because she was 15 miles away at the PDSA. I feel bad … Continue reading
Mother Dies
Mother died on June 14th, 2011 at the age of 94. I am not sure why she died or why she was admitted to hospital in the first place just 14 days or so earlier. One thing is certain – … Continue reading
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When Will They Ever Learn? #6
When will she ever learn that I will not, repeat not, ever be going to my brother’s house at xmas. Having said that, I would, in certain circumstances, if it made her happy in her last years. The reason it … Continue reading
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When Will They Ever Learn? #5
The most important thing parents have to do is to raise their children to adults without screwing them up. What happens to children especially those under ten, because that’s the most impressionable age, stays with them for the rest of … Continue reading
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When Will They Ever Learn? #4
When will they learn that repeating a lie over and over again does not make it the truth. In ‘When Will They Ever Learn #1’ I said that one of my grandchildren had called ‘their other grandfather’ pervy. Those were … Continue reading
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When Will They Ever Learn? #3
The most important thing parents have to do is to raise their children to adults without screwing them up. What happens to children especially those under ten, because that’s the most impressionable age, stays with them for the rest of … Continue reading
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When Will They Ever Learn? #2
My father had two brothers and one day way back in the mists of time there was a fall out. His middle brother fell out with the eldest and from that day on there was no contact between them or … Continue reading
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When Will They Ever Learn? #1
I said in an earlier entry ‘Remembering Grandfather #2’ that my parents had no respect for my grandfather and used to upset me as an 8 year old with their disparaging comments and put downs. I took him as I … Continue reading
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Remembering Grandfather #2
I only knew one grand father. My father’s father left when he was three years old so I never knew him. My mother’s father on the other hand was a very different kettle of fish or perhaps I should say … Continue reading
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Maternal Grandmother
My grand mother Ethel, was born in Gateshead, Co Durham in 1895. She was the youngest of six with three sisters and two brothers, or should I say half brothers and sisters. This wasn’t discovered until many years later. Her … Continue reading
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Remembering Grandfather #1
Lawrence Alfred Copeland, my maternal grandfather, was born in 1885, the son of a coalminer in the Doncaster area of Yorkshire. At the age of 15 he was working as a colliery yard labourer but quite wisely decided that ‘going … Continue reading
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When Father Died
When my father died in May 1996 at the age of 81 it came as a shock. He didn’t look as if he was that age more like mid seventies. It was also almost a shock that he was actually … Continue reading
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