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The remnants of our French dream are packed in boxes.

And it all started out so well, so optimistically. But it is all behind us now except for one important aspect  – we still have a small mountain of household items left in our French property to bring back to the UK. They are all boxed up though, I spent the better part of August [...]

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How would the kids of today cope in the schools of yesteryear…?

I don’t think they would cope, because going to school changed forever when the trendies spouting their liberalism and political correctness started interfering with education. I came across this charming little photo of some school children from 1953 enjoying their daily bottle of milk which was provided free of charge to all school children when [...]

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One woman who inspired me – Erma Bombeck.

One of the greatest writers whose works I had the pleasure of reading was an American lady named Erma Bombeck. Erma’s books were about real life. She was a wife and mother of the 60’s and a journalist and best-selling author in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. She had one of the longest running [...]

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