General Chat

Ann, I love anything to do with the past and you tell it so very well. Thank you for sharing....! Have just found your previous post and enjoyed every minute. Wish I had your gift! Lindy ;))

I can relate to many of your memories Ann. I was born and brought up just a few miles away. I was often begging Mum to swop to Tom Parker milkman because I loved his horse-drawn float..... Gwyn

nudging this part too. ( I have roots in Hampshire!) Angela :-))

I'm off to bed now but i just had to add to this so i can find it to finish reading in the morning, thanks again Ann i have really enjoyed ready what lovely memories you have......i'm only 30 something and i can't even remember my school days Nicky.x

I would definately like to read more Ann, Thank you. Tina x

Hi Ann, I only just popped on to check my messages. Absolutley fantastic, what a great read. Must find the first chapter. Jenny xx

Thank you. More, please.

Ann you have moved me to tears reading this this is the BEST THING i HAVE ever read on here so moving it's alomst like reading a good book the relationship with you and your father and both your parents thank you so much Ann for sharing this it has been an absolute joy catherine xx

I have put Chapter 1 on a separate thread but it is sinking down the pages. I wonder if I should have added it onto this thread? Ann Glos

Ann, I have been totally mesmerised by this, it's brilliant. Thank you for sharing. Tina x

It took me a long time and is not really finished yet (when do you finish writing your life history?) But I thoroughly enjoyed writing it ad hope the grandchildren will appreciate it one day. Ann Glos

Ann. I have done the very same as part of tree research,,,what paths each search took me down,,and where I ended up,,,,its makes it all so worth while,,,

Ann, this is so lovely to read, warm and comfortable, Thankyou so very much Caz xxxx

Stella, I am blushing now, I always liked to scribble. Ann Glos

Well when it is published i'll buy a copy Hazelx

Ann, enjoying your memories, know that part of Fareham and remember Tom Parker milk rounds xx Jill

I think I probably have although it is not published. Ann Glos

Ann , i can relate to your story , it's as though i was reading about my own life . You should really write a book Hazelx

Ann,, this is wonderful...--- I am sitting by the fire in your kitchen ,,,,,,,,))))

It was also in the kitchen that Tony and I would do our courting in the fifties, with the occasional ‘visit’ from Mum from the lounge (as it was now called) to make sure we were behaving ourselves. I always used to sit on his lap in the bigger of the two wooden armchairs listening to vinyl records Long Playing (LPs) and 45s. Some of our favourite artistes being Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Chris Barber, especially The Old Rugged Cross featuring Monty Sunshine, and Fats Domino, especially his Blueberry Hill. When I was sixteen until I married Tony at aged twenty, he used to spend evenings with us at home, he would arrive on his motor bike, a 250cc BSA, and he would leave his leathers in my bedroom. My mother was extremely narrow minded, and objected to me going into the bedroom with him when he got dressed again (remember he was already fully clothed, he was only putting on outer garments.) One day I was in there talking to him as he dressed (we were engaged to be married by now and I was eighteen), and the door was not fully open so Mum, just happening to go past, pushed the door open and peered in. Tony jokingly said to me ‘who’s your friend?’ That was it, Mum didn’t speak to either of us (or my Dad for some reason, I suppose he must have stuck up for me) for two weeks. My Mother could sulk for England!!