Lost in Words

In 2022, I wrote a book called Son of My Father. I remember the moment the title came to me. I was pacing around my home, thinking — search...

An extract from my memoir, Son of My Father.       A very different time. My Brother wrote the service for mam's funeral. He wrote the...

  1)  A cost of living crisis would happen every few years.  Money was tight, inflation was often high, and austerity was the norm for man...

  1) We would often have sugar sandwiches for tea, usually because we had run out of jam — or money to buy jam. White bread, margarine, an...

The big box in the corner. That’s what our first televsion was called. It's the early 1960s, and I have a memory of a rather big box tha...

        Money was different when I was a boy. It really was different.  It actually changed when decimalisation was introduced in the UK on ...

When I was a young boy, my mother set me a challenge. It was during the long school holiday one year, and she was hoping to keep me busy and...

When I was a young lad, if ever I got a little too ambitious, my mother would say to me. “You need to come back down to earth.” Sometimes, w...

The memories of a sixties' child.  Everyone has a story to tell. Here's mine in twenty chapter headings.  Chapter One — Just a Sma...

                                               Until recently, I was not aware that Tipp-Ex, the correction fluid , was still available. I h...

I was on Twitter X the other day, when I came across a post about the comics that were a big part of life for children back in the 1970s. Th...

1) You ate sugar sandwiches, because jam was not available. 2) You had an aunt who would cut your hair. 3) The local library was the interne...

When I was a lad, I would wonder why Boxing Day was called Boxing Day?  No one in my family had an answer to it.  I came to what I thought w...

My first job, other than doing errands and helping out at home for pocket money, was a paper round. That's not me in the picture, but I ...

Amazingly, this is my most viewed tweet on Twitter X in 2023 and for a brief period, a few weeks after posting, it was trending.  It has 720...

Back in the 1960s and 70s, every house in Britain had one (at least) of these.  The tin rubbish bin. This was long before recycling and diff...

Well, this will be ambitious. I came up with this idea, a blog variation on the twelve days of Christmas, ambitiously called the twelve post...

Here are three things that we may never see again. 1) A pay packet with actual money in it (but not much money). 2) England winning the Worl...