I’m four and a half, somehow living with Mum in a bed-sit at 21 Landsowne Road, halfway between Thora’s and her Dad’s. She has two rooms to herself with a grubby bathroom we have to share, halfway down a flight of stairs on the next landing. Here I witness the […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Great Aunt Ada Ada, one of my Granny Selina’s sisters, comes to stay one summer, stopping at Auntie Muriel’s in Summertown, a world away from the shadow of the power station at Knottingley. A kind woman, plain and no nonsense, I knew where I was with Aunt Ada. The splitting […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes