What was your mum like?

[pastafreak]

I was just thinking about mine-and she could have been a 19th C pioneer. She did a lot of the DIY-painting-even some rather pretty murals on our lounge wall-,even building a wall unit in our DR and some furniture in my bedroom. She could be out in the garden from early am til dusk-growing a lot of our veggies,cooked everything from scratch,baked cakes,pies,cookies...and the best bread ever. She even made a lot of my clothes til I was in my teens.And she still managed to do part-time jobs as well. I wish I had half the energy she seemed to have.

[NoMercy]

Aww Red, that must have been so difficult. x x

[pastafreak]

SQAD-OBVIOUSLY YOUR MUMS VALUES SUITED HER...AND MADE HER THE WOMAN YOU LOVED SO MUCH.

Oh...sorry for the 'shouting' folks.....

tigger...maybe your mum will soften and relax a bit now...x

Redman.....((HUG))...so sorry

[redman41]

She worked at Llangwyfan Sanitorium in the Vale of Clwyd Squad. I also caught TB and ended up there myself from 1955-56 but I was lucky and got cured of TB on both Lungs.

[Sqad]

redman......Streptomycin. PAS, INAH.........era.

As medical student we were made to have a drink of liquid PAS....the worst taste I have ever encountered.

[funnygirl]

I loved my mum, she was like an older sister to me.
She had our arguments later in life but always made up.
She was fully supportive of me and gave me so much encouragement.

I miss her deeply.

[redman41]

So right Squad, the taste was diabolical but somehow all the Medicine and injections and the care of the Doctors and Nurses worked wonders.
Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts ! x

[boxtops]

I know where I get a lot of my traits from. My mother was completely undomesticated, she kept house but housewife she was not -completely at her happiest in a business environment - I know we're weird, but she loved the feel of stationery, I could live in Staples... Housework didn't remotely interest her but she had to do it while she was a stay at home mum - as soon as she could, she went out and got a job, and was a typist until she was 76. A woman before her time.

[pastafreak]

I'm not half as domesticated as my mum was,boxy....gosh-I wish I was. Housework is so not my forte.

[rowanwitch]

Mum...out at work someone I mostly saw on sundays and evenings when I was a bit older...someone who introduced my sister and I as .....this is Barbara she's the pretty one and this is annette...took us to the toy shop in her lunchbreak and bought us small games/puzzles etc so we wouldn't disturb our grandparents. pushed me away when I tried to get on her lap saying I was too fat...I was 5 I dont think it was my fault at that stage...get the picture>>>>

[Bobbisox]

I am sooo happy you have found what I can only describe as a perfect man Rowan

[rowanwitch]

Excuse me Bobbi....he snores so he's only 99.9999999% perfect....but he'll do very nicely

[Bobbisox]

he obviously loves you very much Rowan, it comes through on here

[rowanwitch]

It's mutual Bobbi...but he hasn't met my mum yet...that might just scare him off....

[Bobbisox]

I very much doubt it Rowan x