"THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO

       

 

WHERE HAVE THE LAST THIRTY TWO YEARS GONE WOULDN'T I LIKE TO KNOW.

 

LOOKING BACK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH I WONDERED THEN WHERE WE WOULD GO .

 

AS AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME IN LIFE I WAS LEFT  WITH THREE CHILDREN SMALL.

 

I HAD NO IDEA WHAT LIFE HAD  IN STORE AND I HAD NO CARES AT ALL.

 

YET WHEN I CAME ACROSS THIS PICTURE I THOUGHT TO MYSELF WELL KATH

 

LOOKING AT YOU THERE SMILING YOU  MUST STILL HAVE HAD STRENGTH TO LAUGH.

 

THE ELDEST SON  JUST SEVEN YRS OLD THEN NEXT SON THREE AND A HALF .

 

MY DAUGHTER TEN MONTH OLD AND ME WEARING MY BANDANA SCARF.

 

I HAD GONE ON A DAY TRIP OUT TO WALES WITH A FRIEND SO KIND TO ME THEN.

 

I AM  SAT AT THE TOP OF CAERNARFON CASTLE IN THEM DAYS WALES WAS A JEM.

 

THE PREVIOUS YEAR I HAD BEEN SO ILL WHEN EXPECTING MY BABY GIRL..

 

COMPLICATIONS SET IN AT THREE MONTHS AND EVERYTHING WENTIN A WHIRL .

 

I HAD ACUTE APPENDICITIS AND A GALL BLADDER OP AS WELL.

 

THEN I HAD AN ABCESS REMOVED FROM MY UTERUS TOO PAINFUL FOR ME TO TELL .

 

THE SURGEON TOLD MY PARENTS IT WAS MY LIFE OR THE BABES.

 

UNTIL ANOTHER SPECIALIST STEPPED IN AND HIM OUR LIVES HE SAVED.

 

SIX MONTHS OF OPERATIONS AND BED REST UNTIL THE DAY.

 

MY BABY GIRL WAS DELIVERED IN THE ORDINARY  NORMAL WAY.

 

I WAS VERY WEAK ON COMING HOME AND FOUGHT WITH ALL OF MY MIGHT.

 

THOUGH AT ONE POINT DURING MY HOSPITAL STAY I DID GIVE THEM ALL A FRIGHT.

 

SO WHEN I RECOVERED AND I WAS THEN LEFT WITH MY CHILDREN THREE.

 

I WAS ASKED IF I'D LIKE THIS DAY OUT AND SO I QUICKLY  DID AGREE.

 

THE YEAR WAS 1976 AND I REMEMBER THE WEATHER  RED HOT.

 

THATS MAYBE WHY I HAVE THE BANDANA PLONKED ON MY TOP KNOT HE-HE.

 

 

LOOKING BACK NOW I THINK OF THE TIME HOW I WORRIED WHAT LIFE HAD IN STORE.

 

TODAY AS I LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH I DON'T THINK I COULD WISH FOR MORE.

 

TIMES HAVE BEEN HARD AND IV'E STRUGGLED BUT ALSO TIMES HAVE BEEN GOOD.

 

SO MUCH SO IF WE COULD TURN AROUND I KNOW I SURELY WOULD.

 

LIVE OVER THOSE YEARS I HAVE TRAVELLED I'M SO THANKFUL FOR ALL I HAVE HAD.

 

IT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE BUT I TAKE THE GOOD WITH THE BAD .

 

LOOK HOW SLIM THE CHILDREN WERE  IN THEM DAYS FOLKS CAN YOU  SEE.

 

SOMETIMES ON THESE OLD PHOTOGRAPHS THEY LOOK SKELETAL TO ME.

 

THOUGH I FEEL BECAUSE THEY ATE WHAT WE COOKED GOOD FOOD NOT LIKE TODAY.

 

I NEVER BOUGHT ANYTHING  IN TINS OR JARS AND NO FAST FOODS DOWN OUR WAY.

 

ALL THE PROCESSED STUFF THATS AROUND ON SALE FOR THE KIDS IN THIS AGE.

 

CHIPS AND BEEFBURGERS FAST FOODS ETC  SEEM NOW TO BE ALL THE RAGE.

 

SO I DO BELIEVE THE DOCTORS ARE RIGHT IN MANY THINGS WHICH THEY SAY.

 

ABOUT THE GROWING DIABETES CHILDREN ARE EXPERIANCING  TODAY.

 

WELL THE PICTURE ABOVE I JUST LOVE IT OF THE CHILDREN  WHEN THEY  WERE SMALL.

 

THERE  IN WALES A SINGLE MOTHER  OUTSIDE THE FLORAL HALL.

 

OH ISN'T IT GOOD TO LOOK BACK AT OLD PICTURES WHEN WE HAVE LOTS OF TIME.

 

I LOVE TO GO BACK TO THEM DAYS BUILDING SAND CASTLES SAYING NURSERY RHYMES .

 

IF WE KNEW BACK THEN WHAT WE KNOW NOW BACK IN THOSE DAYS OF OLD.

 

I STILL WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING IN MY LIFE WHICH A LITTLE OF IT I HAVE TOLD.

 

CHILDREN KEEP YOU YOUNG AT HEART AND THEY KEEP YOU ON YOUR TOES.

 

EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD A FAMILY WILL UNDERSTAND THIS AND  KNOW.

 

AHHHH  WELL THOSE THIRTY TWO YEARS HAVE PASSED NOW AND IT IS 2008.

 

I HAVE LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF ALL OF THEM EACH ONE OF THEM  WERE GREAT.

 

I DID HAVE ANOTHER SON AFTER THIS TIME TO MY ROOSTER IN  SEVENTY NINE.

 

EVEN THOUGH I HAD BEEN TOLD NOT TO EVERYTHING  TURNED OUT FINE.

 

THROUGH TIMES OF TROUBLE AND SADNESS WE ALL SEEM TO WIN THROUGH SOMEHOW..

 

YES THERE IS LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL WHEN YOUR THINKING YOU  DON'T KNOW HOW.

 

TO MAKE ENDS MEET AND WHERE YOU ARE GOING OR WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.

 

SO DON'T GET UPSET BECAUSE BELIEVE ME IV'E  HAD ROUGH TIMES AND BEEN VEXED.

 

BUT THE GOOD LORD HE HELPED ME THROUGH IT ALL AND HERE I AM AT THIS TIME.

 

THIRTY TWO YEARS PAST  MY FAMILY GROWN UP  AND STILL WRITING " MY SIMPLE RYHME "

 

                

                                    

 

 THANX TO CHRIS OF CAB'S CREATIONS FOR THIS LOVELY GRAPHIC.

 

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