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.
Mary
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Mary Hopkin was born on this day in 1950 so, according to my shaky
arithmetic, she is now seventy four years old. At the tender age of
eighteen, the shy ...
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