Post 201

Just noticed that I posted my 200th post yesterday so this is my 201st post - will the excitement ever end?

OK so if you haven't lapsed into a boredom induced coma read on......

Yesterday my Uncle came to visit me, my Mum was his big sister, if you have read some earlier posts you will know that I have found a cousin I didn't know I had. She is doing lots of research on my Grandmothers side. Anyway my Uncle came round yesterday since he is meeting the cousin tomorrow for a catch up and to show some photos. We had a right old laugh with old stories about him and my Mum as teenagers in Liverpool in the late 50's/early 60's.

Later in the day we uncovered some sadness in both of our pasts which I won't divulge here, but it is sad to know that my Mum will never know about these things.

Mum kept a diary for most of her adult life, nothing salacious or "deep and meaningful" really, just everyday stuff but what a record of her life from about the age of 19. She seemed to be out dancing 2 or 3 times a week in Liverpool and writes about all the boys that asked her to dance or take her home.

Gosh how romantic, now it's meet you on the Internet, text you for a date and break up by instant messaging, how very dull!

It's absolutely fascinating reading them though, the first one I found was from 1960, the year she met my Dad. She met him at a New Years Eve party that year and I found the diary entry for that and the first few days of 1961 when they were "courting". She was supposed to go dancing on New Years Eve but had split up with her boyfriend on Christmas Eve, so she was invited to go to a party at a friends house and she met my Dad. On the 30th she writes that she is not sure whether to go dancing or to the party, arrgggh!!! I am glad she went to that party.

Dad always said he knew as soon as he laid eyes on her at that party that he would marry her and he proposed on January 15th 1961, just 2 weeks later! She told him where to get off, but eventually said yes later in 1961. She writes in her diary that he asked her to marry him and then a couple more entries after that, then NOTHING for the rest of 1961, I can't believe it. I was like noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Normal service resumes in 1962 though , most of the entries start with seems to start with whether she has had a letter from my Dad since he was in the army. It's just great to read, and most of the friends she mentions are still around and I know some of them.