A Hundred Thousand Years ago, when I was a young adult, I became a leader in my local youth club. I was only 19 at the time, so not much older than the child members of the club who were aged 10-14. While the idea of the club was to provide a wholesome social and …
Since marrying into Mr B’s clan 23 years ago, I have assimilated many of their habits. There was a time when I was shocked by their talking over one another at dinner. I came from a ‘whist for the farm news’ kind of kitchen table, but now, I’m able to cross chat, glaze over and …
By all accounts I was a very chatty child, too chatty going by the many sayings my father used to get me to pipe down. ‘A quarter of the talk Margaret’, was his mantra of choice, followed by ‘If there were prizes going for talking Margaret, you’d win them hands down’. But the one that …
Ordinary Plenty 