Chas, much to my annoyance, had ordered this to be specially made. I felt we were doing very nicely and needed less improvements, not more. I had no desire to be a Mrs Sainsbury (in reality we were Mrs Marks and Mr Sparks), for I would rather have spent the money on home improvements, but the sho...
I would have liked to have had it bobbed, but daren’t mention such a criminal act to my parents, for they had never got over the shock of Amy’s brazenness when she had arrived home one day minus her lovely long, thick, dark tresses. She pranced into the kitchen thinking she looked truly beautiful...
He liked his job in the docks. Thursday was still card night at Rob’s, week-ends gardening and football, and we managed on his wages (only just). Never over-ambitious, he was always more intent on conscientiously carrying out the job on hand. No war now, the years, for him, stretched away peacefu...