Author: maureenfox36
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EXASPERATION : small mumblings.
My happy relationship with the modern world has so far been dependent on how much I can understand and accept all sorts of the clever and sometimes mysterious things that are impinging on my life. I have not been too bothered and, like many of you I suspect, I have learned to do what the…
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MORE MUMBLINGS
I have resisted the urge to write for a while because I cannot master this Blog Business properly and I forget how to do the simplest routines with regrettable speed and no compunction. Well, there is some of the latter if I am truthful, but my desire to lose compunction (can you do such a…
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IF
This is an unusual piece of writing for me to do. It is purely personal and it may offend some readers because it is one of those ‘Wot I Think’ nonsenses so please don’t be offended just take a pill and lie down, or simply move on to a more palatable dish. I love tennis…
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For Those Feeling Disenfranchised in the Modern World
Meet Henry Crun And Minnie Bannister For those who do not know, this duo were characters conjured up by THE GOONS a group of inspired British radio comedians of the sixties. We are just ‘borrowing’ them as fondly remembered characters whom we still view with affection and admiration. Their antics and errors made us laugh.…
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A Bum Note
The war was over. In the outer suburbs of London the children of the survivors, plus some returned evacuees broke out from hibernation determined to play. We were a group of young in1946/47 and the world would have been our oyster except that none of us had any money and in any case did not…
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Not My War?
It is too easy to dismiss problems that at first glance seem not to be of moment to oneself. Perhaps, even a war could be dismissed as such a ‘problem’ and when in the seventies we found ourselves unexpectedly caught up in a war between Pakistan and India our first thought was to extract ourselves…
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The Dame School And The Evacuees
Life in London and its suburbs of had become increasingly uncomfortable by 1942 and more and more children were being rehomed away from the capital and other large cities and, in truth, from anywhere that might attract the attentions of the Luftwaffe. Our parents decided that the time had come to think about evacuating my…
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Is This War Mummy?
This is, as far as is possible, a true recollection of an incident in June 1940. Some small details have had to be presumed as “likely “after all this time, but they do not alter what happened during that hot summer’s day. Heroes come in all sorts of sizes and disguises, and this is a…
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