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Sandy
- Name: Zandranna
- Age: 61
- Gender: Female
- Location: Christchurch, Dorset UK
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Butterfly Memories
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Sweeping the Chimney Backwards
12/23/08 06:50:11 | 12 Comments
One day sparks started coming down the chimney. We all knew then it was time to sweep it. Sparks meant the next thing would be the chimney would be on fire.
That day the fire would be allowed to continue burning, but before it was lit again it was time to drag furniture outside the prepab and start building it up against the side of the house.
Sweeping the chimney was great fun for us kids, if not for my Mother. The kitchen table was the first to go outside and on top of that... -
A New Meaning to Paying with Plastic
12/04/08 00:54:11 | 4 Comments
My Sisters and I were brought up never to lie and especially never to steal. But Mother had a way of fiddling honestly. She would never have stolen but she had a way of twisting the system to keep us going until the next of her payments were due.
One of the harmless fiddles she practiced was a great source of amusement to myself and my younger sister.
We had prepaid gas and electric meters which were fed with shilling coins. This was prior to our changing to decimalisation in... -
Living on National Assistance
11/16/08 08:33:54 | 5 Comments
Nowadays it is quite the normal for single parents to bring up their children alone. Many are admired for the wonderful way that their children turn out. Over here in England the state goes a long way to help support single parent families not only with financial support topping up wages when the parent can only work a few hours a week, but every town has a multitude of government nursery schools and more being opened yearly. There are so many schemes to help those that are struggling to bring... -
Life in a Prefab
11/08/08 09:35:40 | 10 Comments
The prefabricated homes that were
erected soon after the end of the Second World War were an absolute life saver to the British people.
Whole estates of prefabs were constructed to provide accommodation for those made homeless and ongoing slum clearance. Almost 160,000 had been built in the UK by 1948 at a cost of close to £216 million.
Prefabs were aimed... -
Introduction
11/06/08 07:44:04 | 0 Comments
Photo: Myself at the age of 2 with my eldest Sister.
So you think you are coming in at the beginning. Everyone starts at the beginning don't they? Well think again.
Not being a writer and virtually having had no decent formal education after the age of about eleven I do not have the word power or the English... -
About the Author
11/06/08 07:41:12 | 6 Comments
I was born on 1st November 1948 at home in a prepab at 56 Warren Avenue, Selsdon, in Surrey where I lived with my 3 sisters until the age of 11 years old.
Selsdon at that time was very countrified. We lived around the corner to what is now Selsdon Nature reserve but in my time it was the most amazing Bluebell Woods. Also in the immediate area were what we called the Primrose Woods. Absolutely beautiful. Sadly along with many bluebells, primroses died out and much of those beautiful...
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