from a file I am working on written between 1960 and 1962:
"Mrs M (foster carer) is very depressed because she is trying to get her weight down, and after a month on a Swedish Milk diet, instead of a minimum weight loss of 7 lbs as they advertise, she has actually gained 12lbs and is now over 15 stone for the first time in her life."
"Mrs C had been spending a great deal of time at the hospital recently as Trevor (son aged 4) drank a bottle of turpentine last week."
"Gill M went for the money last Saturday and went back and told her mother that Sharon was doing the lodgers bedrooms, dressed only in panties and bra and a short dressing gown without any fastenings, Mrs M said sourly if that’s how she was earning her money she could afford to pay more for Mickey (foster child)."
"She started all over again to tell me what a greatly wronged woman she is, but just then two detectives arrived to see her so I left."
Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
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I was at university in Scotland between September 1973 and December 1977.
Bang in the middle of that time, a song was released by Steve Harley and
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