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BABE TO OAP: In the beginning
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Monday, 7 February 2011. The mistake" minus 75. Being the age now of 76 years young and having survived World War 2 with many other hurdles of life to contend with I think it time to put pen to paper if only for the younger element of my family and friends. I was born on the 28. While I was young enough to need a pram my sister tells me she was continually embarrassed by people assuming I was hers? SHIRLEY J. MCCALL. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). JOURNEY HOME FROM HELL. MEMORIES OF THE WAR 1939 ...
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BABE TO OAP: OUR BUNGALOW
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Monday, 18 July 2011. We now had a front and rear garden, patio and a large grassed area. A large ginger cat called Oscar had adopted us at our previous flat so when we moved we had no choice but to bring him with us. He loved his new surroundings and lived with us till he was 15 when he developed cancer and had to be put to sleep. His foster mother agreed to me having him but wanted to know about the kitten I had just chosen? Mac never spoke a word he didn’t dare! SHIRLEY J. MCCALL. Whilst on complete b...
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BABE TO OAP: SHELTERED HOUSING and Voluntary Work
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Monday, 11 July 2011. SHELTERED HOUSING and Voluntary Work. On diagnosis of Mac’s shortened life expectancy we moved to a ground floor flat in a sheltered housing complex in 1979 and resided there for seven years. We had a warden to call on if required and a garage for my adapted car. By this time I became very reliant on a wheelchair for my mobility because on standing I became very unsteady with very little co-ordination for walking safely. Another of my voluntary jobs saw me become nursing adviser to ...
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BABE TO OAP: OUT INTO THE WIDE WORLD
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Monday, 28 March 2011. OUT INTO THE WIDE WORLD. MARKET STORES PETT LEVEL. I left school at 15 because although I would have liked to go on to further education (and always regretted not doing so) it was expected of me to earn a salary so that I could contribute to our household income. I got a job straight away age of 15 at the village store which had an ice cream parlour adjacent which I was allowed to manage. MAUREEN and DAD JIM. It was with sadness that within the past few years Flo then Jim passed aw...
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BABE TO OAP: April 2012
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Monday, 9 April 2012. Memories of my Mother. I was listening to the Jeremy Vine Show on radio two today and the main subject was did listeners have any memories of their parents or grand-parents who were in domestic service in the early twentieth Century. This brought to mind the many stories I heard from my mother who was put into Service at the age of thirteen and worked for a rich household in Hove East Sussex. On Sunday afternoons the maids were expected to attend Church but sometimes my mother and a...
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BABE TO OAP: MEMORIES OF THE WAR 1939 – 1945 AS REMEMBERED BY A CHILD
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Sunday, 8 July 2012. MEMORIES OF THE WAR 1939 – 1945 AS REMEMBERED BY A CHILD. I was but five years old when world war two was announced and only eleven when we celebrated winning it. During those six years my young life was dictated by war and strife and I still have many memories living with me to this day. When the sirens went off to warn us of approaching planes or doodle-bugs we would all dive for our air-raid shelters either the Anderson or the Morrison one indoors and one outdoors. I can remem...
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BABE TO OAP: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS & COPING WITH AN ALCOHOLIC
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Monday, 4 July 2011. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS and COPING WITH AN ALCOHOLIC. Unfortunately before I was able to start this progression of my career after many more neurological tests and admission to Hurstwood Park Hospital I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis which when told has to be the darkest day of my life knowing that the career I loved so much had to come to an end. SHIRLEY J. MCCALL. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). JOURNEY HOME FROM HELL. PART ONE MATERNITY TRAINING and District Nursing. Whilst ...
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BABE TO OAP: STUDENT NURSE
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Monday, 18 April 2011. Looking through the job vacancies in the local paper I espied an advertisement for student nurses to start in the1956 January Hastings School of Nursing so I applied and to my great joy and amazement got an appointment to see the Matron Miss Marchant at the Royal East Sussex Hospital which was demolished some years ago and transferred to the Conquest up on the Ridge on the outskirts of Hastings. 65279;. 65279; . Royal East Sussex Hospital (old). SHIRLEY J. MCCALL. On arri...
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BABE TO OAP: THE WEATHER
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Monday, 13 February 2012. I must say that our weather this winter 2011/2012 has on the whole been good and up until the end of January my geraniums were still blooming and my shrubs had begun to produce buds and some green leaves. Poor things they certainly had a big wake-up shock on February the first when we started winter properly! Then the snow arrived on the Saturday and those of us with mobility problems had our freedom were well and truly curtailed for a spell. I would like to think that other clo...
