There was a huge bomb site at the top of our road. I vaguely remember sofas and other bits of furniture being piled up and burnt. I also remember being outraged when penny bangers went up in price.
My mum was a tomboy - it was my mum not my dad who took us down the park to play sports. She was the girl playing football with the boys back in the 30's. But that doesn't get away from the difference between the sexes. Difference between sexes is common across nature. It is the energy that drives life on.
My parents treated my brother and me equally in teh sense of having to help with household chores - dishes, ironing, dutcing and vaccing - but I wa expected to like dolls. Being a tomboy, I always asked for, but never received, Meccano and train sets.
We have sunshine!! Not a problem in itself but not the storms that were forecast and for which OH's golf match was cancelled so he's home ang hogging the big TV to watch recorded golf. Lovely - not.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@Obelixx - typical! I'm glad I don't have to fight anyone for the remote now I was always a tomboy - still am Went to a private girls' school - the best one in Glasgow at that time, as my Dad thought that was the right thing to do by us. I hated every minute of it. Such is life.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I desperately wanted Meccano ... didn't get it but younger brother did ... I was given a Bayko set and spent hours designing houses ... but at Grammar School my parents were told that architecture wasn't a career suitable for young ladies and I should be discouraged.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's worrying when you think that all these entrenched views are really quite recent @Dovefromabove. At least nowadays, girls have those options at school, and carry it on into their adult lives. My youngest had a little tool belt when she was about three. I have some lovely photos of her, busy with her hammer She had been watching me do all sorts as it was at the time we were doing an extension, and we did a lot of the work ourselves. Unfortunately, she hasn't carried that on....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Same for me wanting to be a pilot and told, aged 12, not possible. Had nobody heard of Amelia Earheart or Amy Johnson or all those women pilots ferrying ne aircraft about for the RAF in the war? It wasn't that long before.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
OH was told by his careers advisor that a lumber jack would be a good career for him, goodness knows why! Turns out he is very good at taking out and pruning trees here! I wanted to be a car mechanic but was told that's not suitable for a girl "you need a proper career - I went into nursing.
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We have sunshine!! Not a problem in itself but not the storms that were forecast and for which OH's golf match was cancelled so he's home ang hogging the big TV to watch recorded golf. Lovely - not.
I was always a tomboy - still am
Went to a private girls' school - the best one in Glasgow at that time, as my Dad thought that was the right thing to do by us.
I hated every minute of it. Such is life.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My youngest had a little tool belt when she was about three. I have some lovely photos of her, busy with her hammer
She had been watching me do all sorts as it was at the time we were doing an extension, and we did a lot of the work ourselves. Unfortunately, she hasn't carried that on....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...