General Chat

My sister has recently sent me an autograph book of my father's which she found when clearing out her loft. That is where a lot of things were stored when he went into a home in 1997.

In the album are many autographs from people I knew and didn't know, family, friends and shipmates.

I like the one from his mother, my Grandmother.

'If God writes "opportunity" on one side of open doors, he writes "responsibility" on the other'.

:-) :-)

a very wise woman methinks :-D

She was Ann, she was a lovely woman she lived for her religion, she was a Baptist, but never thrust it down anyone's throat. She was gentle and kind and a 'lady' in the true sense of the word. But we used to chuckle when she came for Christmas. She immediately put on her overall, to keep sticky fingers off, she sat in the armchair by the fire and didn't lift a finger to help. She wasn't a cuddly gran but we knew she loved us all, she was a family person, very poor, lived in a rented flat with a companion, a second cousin by marriage. She died a couple of months after our wedding.

my paternal gran was as hard as nails - to her children - she was nice to me though - my maternal gran was a darling, everyone loved her and vice versa

Another part to her autograph was a quote by John ruskin:

"There are three sorts of men in the world:-
The wills, the won'ts and the cant's
The first effect everything, the second oppose everything, and the last fail in everything."

Oh just spotted one by someone I don't know.

"If the world thinks you a fool, don't open your mouth to prove it." :-D