My mother, both before and after she met my father ran her own business. She was a self-employed pharmacist with one of the two pharmacies in a (then) small South Essex town. My father was a teacher,… (View Post)

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One idea which has been suggested to me is to arrange for an attractive young lady, fashionably dressed in black and veiled, to attend the funeral. She shouldn’t speak to any of the other mourners an… (View Post)

One of the things one is supposed to do when one gets (very) old….. over 80 for example …. is to write a “What if” letter to one’s nearest, dearest and whoever is going to pick up the pieces. For exa… (View Post)

I lived and worked in S Essex for 30 years. I never thought about the accent. Then I moved away, and I’ve lived in N Essex for 20 years. Today I went to S Essex to the funeral of an old friend. The S… (View Post)