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• Summer 196829th Jan 2023
  It’s Sunday at last. When Dad announced at the tea table on Thursday after dinner that Sunday looked like being hot, and we were going to the beach, I jumped out of my seat and yelled HOORAY! In celebration, I raced out of the front door after dinner. It was light and warm, with aContinue reading “Summer 1968”
• Chapter 2027th Jun 2022
  When the War Is Over September 1945 There were great celebrations when it was announced that Germany had surrendered in the May, and the streets of Richmond, which were never short of men weaving their way between pub and bookie at any time of the day, were even more full of drunks wandering the streets,Continue reading “Chapter 20”
• Chapter Nineteen14th Apr 2022
  Becoming Auntie Shirl In early 1942, Shirley’s life was changed forever in a way that fate has of randomly picking up people’s lives and shaping them forever, just as the ocean washes a piece of reef off the beach and pushes and melds it in waves and storms so that it is shaped and smoothedContinue reading “Chapter Nineteen”