A memoir from the 1970s.
I was desperately in love. He was desperate to explore the Scottish Highlands. So it worked out well. He got a companion to talk to (and who took turns at carrying the tent) and I got to see parts of the Highlands and Islands I would not have seen (not then and not in that … Continue reading Your Memoirs – “Highland Encounter”
The indigo sky sparkled with diamonds and I shouldn’t have had a worry in the world. He sat on a chair, calmly drinking beer and reading a book on the history of the Reserve. I needed to pluck up courage. Should I be cool, collected? Or just run like mad? It had bothered me all … Continue reading Your Memoirs – “Treading Down Memory Lion”
Manchester 1973was a blurring of sleet on red brickour freedom compromised by the minutiae of tickslibrary time spent with the ponderous clock.Hours wasted in back room pubsdisparate furniture ringed with filmy eyed accusations,Guinness and Gitanes fuelled argumentsspooling in long looping coils like a faulty cassettesluggard days lost before the sky switched to night,wet pavements, the … Continue reading Your Memoirs – “Manchester 1973”
March 24th 1970 5am. I lay in my bed in the maternity hospital in Sunderland. My labour pains were getting stronger and more frequent. After two hours of gas and air I felt as if I was floating. It wont be long now love the midwife said reassuringly. She knelt at the bottom of my … Continue reading Your Memoirs – “Precious Moments”