Amongst the cards are vases of flowers, tulips, roses, hyacinths -
My mum sits on the settee, looking at the cards and the flowers -
She's gathered together cards from her previous birthdays -
It's late afternoon -
I'm 90 she says - yesterday was really good - took me by my breath - all those people -
Lovely seeing Nan Anne says -
Nan's 92 and walks like a soldier Dot had said -
The Canon told us he rode a 750 Yamaha -
If I stay like this I could be 100 my mum says -
My dad's looking at photograph of himself and his navy chums, all of them just 19 -
They're standing outside Place House in 1946 -
He's reading their names -
Ken Cole - he says - Larry, there, there's me, Len Radice, Moe Brown, Bud Abbot, Charlie Comlay -
They're all dead, or in homes, I tell Anne -
Apart from your dad she says -
17.02
Sunday 3 April 2016
Staunton Road
Havant
Hampshire
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