"I was in a place I did not want to be. I had found an English speaking friend."
For several days, the villages toiled from dawn to dusk, building something almost next to my hut. Maria was clearly excited by the development. Joe had only been gone three days, yet it seemed like ages.There was a commotion going on...
"A nun is sent out to a far off place to establish a Christian church."
The only thing that I ever wanted to be was a nun. I was eighteen when I entered holy orders at the convent in Kilkenny. There were twelve nuns already well established and I was the first new novice in...
Do not imagine for an instant, gentle reader, that I am brave or even particularly resourceful. I took this task upon myself as much out of the need to satisfy the promptings of my headstrong nature as out of regard...
"Love letters on the Pony Express"
October 14th, 1860My Dearest Josephine,The journey was arduous over the Sierra’s, but I made it to Sacramento in just over a month. I cannot say an exact date for my return. As I stepped from my mount upon arriving and...
"Things at Greenlands were not quite what they appeared to be."
There were always fifteen boys in the sixteen age group and the same number in the most senior group. There were also only ever six Madams and they came from six different countries. They were the very best and all...
"I was an Army officer for twenty-seven years before I was forced into retirement."
I followed my father and grandfather into the parachute regiment when I was eighteen. I married my cousin Susan Haylock when I was twenty-one. We have three children and five grandchildren. I served with the regiment for twenty-seven years before...
"I had found something most pleasurable thanks to an elderly vulgar old man."
The country had been at war for six long years. At the start of the 1950s things began to improve. My sister was a helper at our local church. Nothing wonderful just to help out generally with the evening functions...
"I find my Great-Great Grandmother's Diaries!"
“On my wedding night, I was shocked! You have to understand I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen. My mother didn’t discuss it, my father certainly wouldn’t talk to a mere girl about such activities. I was...
"There was great sorrow in the town as the young men went off to war"
I knew quite a lot of the men who enlisted to fight for King and country; I went to the same school that they did. The townspeople lined the streets as the battalion which became known as the Dover riflemen marched...
"She was beginning to explore certain things which were not at all very Ladylike."
Towards the end of the year 1913 Mr. Thomas' wife Murial died after a long illness. The shop was closed for the next week whilst arrangements could be made. The funeral was held at St Margaret's church and it was well...
