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Weekly Contest #51
As a little girl in the 1940's I was always very happy in my father's company. When I look back now I realise that I may well have been his favourite child. He married my mother relatively late in life and by the time I was born he was already 40 years old. By then I had an older brother who was my senior by 18 months. Life became secure and predictable until I was 5 and then things started to slowly unravel after that. One day I was told that I was to be sent away to live with a family friend and her husband who had no childre...
Weekly Contest #49
When I set out that morning the clouds loomed ahead, threatening rain, but I decided to walk anyway. I hadn't too far to go and I remembered to put a folding umbrella in my handbag, as well as donning my red hooded raincoat, just in case. I always enjoyed the route to the doctor's surgery. It was quiet and fairly peaceful with only the occasional passerby coming in my direction. I had chosen the right time of day, had I been earlier hordes of schoolchildren would have been making their way to the bus stop further up the ...
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