This week's topic is Childhood Routines and Graham, like many others, chose to focus on bathtime which was usually a weekly occurence.
Household routines are part of growing up and they change with each passing decade. From times when washing was done by hand in the copper and squeezed through a mangle to the autmated washing machine sof today. Ruth talks about the routines of her childhood.
Margaret was born in 1925 and her she recalls the household routines of her childhood in Lincoln, England.
Helen, who grew up in Whyalla, South Australia, talks about her memories of bathtime and bedtime.
How things have changed. In this week's story Joyce recalls bathtime as a child in Peterborough. The weekly bath on Saturday and the rituals associated with it.
As Nazareth House, the orphange in which Pat lived, had a no pet policy Pat has chosen to talk about the people who she looked up to at the Orphange.
Pat's neighbours when she lived in the orphanage at Plymouth, were the Marines. And one Guy Fawkes Day the children were invited to share the celebrations organised by the Marines.
Helen remembers bathtime and bedtime in her childhood.
Judith talks about the pets of her childhood especially a dachshund called "Houndie".
Bill recalls farm animals ans "pets" although when he thinks about it back in the 1920's they didn't really have petys as we know them today, besides his dad was the local butcher!
This week's topic is childhood pets and Helen tells the Circle about the pets she grew up with in Whyalla, South Australia.
This week Ruth talks about her childhood and, in particular, her pets from that time.
Pat's early schooling was at the Nazareth House orphange and from the age of 12 she went to a local High School.
Margaret was 13 when she got her first pet - an Olde English Sheepdpg!
This week's topic is "Childhood Pets" and Joyce shares her memories of her pets.....
This week Judith combines two topics - her early childhood and her childhood friends in Loftus, NSW.
Bill has always had friends and in this story he talks about the important people in his life, his friends. A schoolteacher - George Williams - and the two friends he went sailing with every Saturday in summer for 25 years.
By way of variety the Life Story Circle has a "Memory Jar" and, if Circle members are short of inspiration or they have nothing to say about the topic of the week, then they can opt to choose one of the 100+ subject from the Memory Jar. Joyce decided she would...
Growing up in the 1940's meant that your friends came from your street and you played outdoors with them. In this story Graham recalls his friebds and the games they played as children.
Pat recalls living at Nazareth House Orphanage in Plymouth during the war years and afterwards.
