My daughter’s wedding day speech

Toria and Adam,its your beautiful wedding day…All your  planning has come together.Your friends and family have heard you both say .That your teenage romance became  loving forever..I’m so proud of both of youAnd all you’ve becomeFrom...

40 years on…..

40 years ago today your arrival was announced.The newspaper team captured your look as into my world you bounced.40 years where has the time gone..I just turned around and you became oneYour sense of humour just matched mineWe both laughed together what a good...

Lockdown Art Class

Lockdown art class on Tuesdays at 2My hands are shaky so what art shall I do?And then I remembered a freebie I’d wonIt’s paint by numbers ..the grown up versionThe ladies at art class don’t cheat like meThey sketch and they paint , copy pictures to a...

A Christmas Turkey’s Lament

Timmy the turkey was feeling real blueHe just didn’t know what he should doIt was getting warmer, he was thawing out wellWhen he discovered something too frightening to tellSomeone had shoved his neck up his bumPlus all sorts of offal in a bag in his tumHis...

More memories from my childhood

Our ‘humpty’ ..it was a footstool type big cushion ..with a cover made of a cleanable vinyl material. I always thought it was called a Humpty because it was Humpty Dumpty shape and have only found out this year that it was its real name! I’m still in...