I guess I'm lucky !
I was over in Dunoon yesterday visiting my 83 yr old aunt and my own mother who is 93. They share a flat and still fight , as sisters do, over who has the story correct. Asking questions about something that happened 50, 60, 70 years ago does not always get a straightforward answer but it triggers lots of reminisinces which invariably produce a gem or two that I have not heard before.
Yesterday produced not only a few more clues... I also fell heir to a photo album going back to her time in America during Prohibition. She has similar albums for my brother and sister so I must knobble them before they cart them off. One to the wilds of Derbyshire; the other to a Scottish island that needs a ferry ride to reach (Luing off the west coast - -pronounced LING for the uninitiated). Beautiful but distant
and I live on the west coast!.
I hope I have access to her memories for a long time !!!
She still does country dancing at 93. I get puffed after the first dance
A bemused Santa was a very appropriate appendage there.
Russell
