Chapters
- Was your llife ever in danger?
- When did you first fall in love?
- Do you believe in fate?
- Where are your parents/grandparents from? Do they speak any other languages?
- How has being a parent changed you?
- If you could give your younger self advice, what would it be?
- What was the most profound spiritual moment of your life?
- What country that you’ve travelled to has surprised you the most?
- Preface
- January
- What did you want to be growing up?
- What’s the first major news story or political event you remember living through as a child?
- May
- What do you remember about your family home?
- What are your memories of primary school?
- June
- Were your parents strict?
- Have you taken part in any demonstrations?
- July
- Remember your first car?
- Why Bee?
- Have you lived through any wars?
- August
- What are your memories of university/college?
- September
- Have you met any famous people?
- October
- Etc …
- November
- What’s the most important piece of advice anyone gave you and why?
- December
- Describe your father and write one favourite memory about him.
- Conclusion
- February
- Describe your mother and write about one favourite memory with her.
- March
- Did you have any serious accidents as a child?
- What was/is your relationship with your siblings? Has this changed?
- April
A Life Well Lived
What did you want to be growing up?
Honeywell Bull, Boston Ma. Enjoying my Winston Churchill Fellowship.
Beryl Ogden, Phyllis Spence and me; 1956?
I never contemplated growing up, I was too busy enjoying being a child. But this changed as I turned 14, my Father constantly reminding me that “you’ll soon be ready f’t’ mill” Seemed like my fate was sealed, I was to go and work in the local mill as Joan and Doreen did. Pat was clever, she would be doing something wonderful and magical and, most importantly, “keep me in my old age”. He never contemplated Pat might marry, he always told me she was to be “an old maid” !
Anyway, a chance meeting changed my future. Accompanying my friend Jackie Allen to the hairdressers, the owner commented on the length of my fingers saying I would make a good hairdresser and was I interested? if so, I should go and see her when it was time to leave school. I was. I did. I became her indentured apprentice Easter 1958 and endured three years of bullying until I gave my notice the day I was legally ‘unbound’ from her. I was in London three days later, starting my career with Maison Lee. I was a hairdresser for 25 years until it broke my back.