04-06-2023, 11:21 AM
My Mum was born on the boat coming here - would have been 105 years ago - her father was always a mystery - spoke very posh was supposedly a roading engineer and had been sent out here by his family to start a company - they brought a lot of beautiful furniture with them - as the years passed we never saw him work at all - he drank a lot and I can remember as a child dragging him out of the blackberries when he crashed his bike on the way home from the pub - awful to say but when he died us kids weren’t sad - after my Nana died one of my Uncles went to England to meet the UK relatives - was no surprise he had been sent out here for his excessive drinking .My Mum obviously had her mother’s longevity genes - Nana lived to 99 was walking along the side of her country road on a drizzly day and the bus driver didn’t see her - we missed and mourned her