Hello everybody. It’s time to write another article!
I hope you’re all well and keeping indoors as much as possible. The weather here in the North of England, is horrible as I write. However, we are still getting out and about as we have the car, and we are always well-wrapped up. Like I’ve said before, young people these days don’t seem to do activities we used to do as there is so more much to do in the modern world. We didn’t have mobile phones and things like flat-screen televisions and computers, but I do remember going to a nearby village called Ledston in order to buy a gramophone from a girl with whom I worked When I got it home, I felt proud as a peacock! I then invited other girls I worked with to come round to listen to Rock n’ Roll music and we had a great time bopping!
When I came home from work, I always put records on my gramophone and I thought it was great. I continued doing this until I was almost 16 when the girls invited me to go to the Embassy. I asked my mother if I go could go and she said I must ask my dad. I replied that he wouldn’t care as he was always away at different places (he was a scrap dealer). Then when he came home, he spent a lot of time and money drinking. Anyway, I got to go and had a good time.
Talking about my dad, he didn’t treat my mother very well and would do unhelpful things like bringing people home with whom he had been drinking and expected her to feed them all even though our resources were limited. But my mother loved him and they had married very young.
After I had been working for a couple of years, I had cleared all my mother’s debts and she was very grateful. My dad didn’t live with us anymore but he was always coming back promising to change his ways. My mother was a lovely woman who deserved more – she even left the scullery door open so he could get the food she had left out for him. Typically, she would also go pea-pulling and potato picking to get money to help the family survive.
That’s enough about the past. Back to the present. It’s still raining very fast here, so surely, we won’t have a water shortage anytime soon? – in fact. if it keeps up, we may experience some flooding. On the bright side, I have managed to get a lot of jobs done in the home.
Anyway, Goodbye for now. Love, June. X
