For a few weeks my partner had to work nights. I wasn’t looking forward to this, as I hated being on my own and was scared to go to sleep at night. I went to bed and settled down. As I lay there I started to hear people and talking, not just one voice but…
I was now living on Burder Street. I knew the Street well and the surrounding ones as I visited my Granny and Aunt Vera when they lived down here and also my friends. Instead of a flat I now lived in a shared house and it was owned by a friend of the family. Two…
We all need a friend in life and one of my most treasured was: Captain Birdseye He was called this because he had a big grey and white beard and had a boat. His boat was kept at the Ring O Bells car park in Loughborough. When he had some spare time he would be…
It was Christmas Eve and tensions were still high in the house, and I was still not feeling that great and nor did I have a job. I went shopping, I thought that if I went shopping and bought gifts for everyone and showed them that I really cared and loved them, then maybe we…
One evening I went upstairs to my bedroom. I was not feeling that great so decided to head up early. To relax I liked to listen to music so I put on my favourite which was Madonna. I had always liked her music, especially the up-tempo ones as I liked to dance. I put on…
Everything I had experienced in life, especially after my mother had died, had left a big gap in it. Being alone doesn’t mean that you are just by yourself. Being alone can mean you live with other people, have friends but still have an emptiness inside and this is how I felt I never got…
My middle brother had seen this house many many years before it became a guest house. It’s funny how someone can see something and have an instant vision for the place. It’s almost as though my brother was meant to see it and that the thought of it being a Guest House was given to…
The PonderRosa was a name that was given to this house by my brother. He had moved in a year or so after we had. As a child I never really knew him that well. Yes, he was my brother but he was much older than me and we didn’t spend much time together. Cover…
For my 18th Birthday, I had gone with some friends to Spain. We stayed at a small house that belonged to the owners of the Casablanca Pub in Loughborough. I had not been on holiday for a while and this would be the second time I had gone away on my own. The first being…
It had been a long 6 months after my mother had died, but there was a new job that I had been offered and I took it. Myself and another girl would be working in the offices in 39 Fabrication Shop. We were given the choice of whether to work downstairs and help support the…