Lone Pine Lodge

Taken from quarryquest

1. have you ever really lived outside the country of your birth? why or why not?
2. what was your first record/cassette tape/cd?
3. what do you think of your parents?
4. what is your relationship with your hair?
5. what kind of pens do you like?


I Yes I have lived for 3 years In England,  I have lived in Wales,the country of my Birth and my life except for those 3 years. Ah but that's not true, I hear some of my non British friends and possibly some of my British friends both are part if the United Kingdom. That is true but the lands that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain a and Ireland were separate countries, England Ireland Scotland and Wales for much longer than they have been united and we, the natives of those countries, still think of them as separate countries, a belief that is rapidly becoming a reality as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own 'parliaments ' though only in Scotland is it called that.

2 Lordie I can't remember that, I'm on my sixties, it was probably an early Cliff Richard or Elvis Presley. I was into Rock back then.

3 I loved them and respected them when they were alive and that has not changed since they died. When I was a tiny child I thought they had the wisdom of God and knew everything. As i grew I realised they were only human and not as well educated as they ensured I was but sacrificing many things so that I could have that education. As a teenager I thought they were terrible spoilsports because they wouldn't let me go to all night parties or wear mini skirts up to my backside in my twenties I realised they were wise beyond my teenage abilities to understand. As I got older still I came to see that a good education did not give the sound common sense and openness of heart I saw in them. Now I am beginning to believe that they were in many ways the all wise beings I had known as a tiny child, they taught me so much I can never repay them.

4 my relationship with my hair is mixed, I wear it short because it is easy to cope with and it suits me but there are times when I wish I had inherited my Father's hair which grew a mile a minute instead of my mother's which took years to grow half an inch.

5 Fountain Pens, Calligraphy pens, dipping pens that I was taught to write with at school over 50 years ago. Hand wrting was so much neater back then%)

Taken from kalypso
2011 Living alone in the same house I was born in.

2001 Living alone in the house as I was born into as its newest owner(See 1961)

1991 Living alone in a mid terraced house in Maindee, Newport Gwent(see 1981).

1981 Living in the first and only house I bought in Maindee Newport. With a 17 year old lodger whose rent helped pay the mortgage.

1971 Living in a rented double bedsit in Southsea, Portsmouth with a fellow student.

1961 Living in the small rented(later bought by my parents in 1972) mid terraced house in the Welsh valleys I was born in with my parents and maternal Grandmother.

1951 living in a small mid terraced rented house in the Welsh Valleys with my parents and both maternal Grandparents.

There is a writing meme going around, it is supposed to be for those who write fictin I think and I'm not one of them but I entered my last three non photographic entries in lj and this is what I got.




Entry 21/6/2010





Entry 21/5/2010




Entry 24/4.2010

I've never read more than a few pages of Stephen King, I hate horror so I can't say if it is accurate to say I write like him. I have read , or more accurately listened to, James Joyce and I do use the same convoluted syntax so it's right there. Interesting.

It's amazing what 6 years of English Baptist Sunday School can nock into your head.


I am not a Shakesperian scholar though.

I was given the words Knitting, Flowers, Car trips and Sci FI by sallymn.  My blathering is below the cut.


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