Michael Leigh's Blog – August 2011 Archive (1)

Buried Elephants

My last Auntie - Auntie Olwen was laid to rest today. She always had good stories to tell. Little anecdotes about life back in the old days when I was knee high to a packyderm. She told me this story several times over the years and it always made me smile about the time I was living at her house just after the war, well, early 50's I would guess. When my parents were looking round for a place to rent, we relied on generous relatives to put us up in the spare… Continue

Added by Michael Leigh on August 17, 2011 at 4:37pm — 3 Comments

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