Kept busy in my old age.

Maywalk · Kept busy in my old age.

My main interest is helping students with their WW2 history dissertations.

If they want help I make them use their brains by asking me at least 20 questions which I answer by e-mail. They build their essay round my answers.

I designed my own patterns and knitted for many folk but now I am older I cant hold the needles like I used to.

I like to write poetry round true stories and had three books published. I have put one of the poems in the poetry section.
I also had a book published about the first 20 years of my life.
It takes the reader through me being illtreated by Sisters of Mercy in a home and being reunited with my family only to be bombed out twice and machine gunned by the jerries.

Oh nearly forgot to mention I have four websites. Very Happy

brian.b

maywalk, please put links to your websites on, so we can look at them. i have three i run, with two on railways and one on a spiritual group my partner and i run together. i also have a number of forums and member of others, but only because it keeps me occupied when nothing else to do. i am a hive of activity these days, so while i am able to, i will keep going and help others like this morning. i was assisting at a riding school for disabled, as i do every two weeks and for children with special needs.

Maywalk

Hello Brian,
These are my websites

http://www.warvetsweb.oddquine.co.uk/ This one I put up for D-Day

http://www.memorylanehf.oddquine.co.uk/ This is my Home Front one

http://www.maywalk.oddquine.co.uk/ This has my book on that I had published called Yesterdays Child.

http://www.petpals.thefourcorners.co.uk/
This is one I had put up for my granddaughter and any of her friends pets. I wrote most of the poems about them.

I hope you enjoy them. I must tell you here that I did not get the pages ready for the sites.The person who owns the domain asked me exactly what I wanted and she took it from there.

I also have a tale about the Loughborough Central Station which I will relate later on if you are interested. Very Happy

Cheers from Maywalk.

Sylvia

Hi Maywalk, I went onto your website and went on a trip down memory lane. You are very talented and your poems bring memories flooding back, of all our yesteryears.

You was once into ballroom dancing, so too was I! I was a late starter back in 1967, when I first became hooked on Ballroom, I did Latin American too. I had several years break from dancing from 1974, when I had my first baby and her needs took priority over dancing. I returned to dancing in 1992, by which time my two children were both quite grown and I never forgot those basic steps. I entered amateur comps and came 2nd in one and 4th in another. My back pain has prevented me from continuing this much loved sport.

I will return to your website again and read some more of your very interesting poems and your wartime memories are an education in themselves. You certainly are an inspiration to this Forum Maywalk.

Sylvia

Maywalk

Hello Sylvia.
Many thanks for the nice compliments about my website/s.
I enjoyed getting them together and all my poems are based on true facts.
I have not got the brain to write anything fictional. Very Happy

Yes hubby and myself used to love ballroom dancing and the Cha-Cha was one of my favourites.
Unfortunately age caught up with us and we had to give it up. Sad

When my son asked me if I would like his old computer it started the next five years of my life off with a bang. Laughing

I was 70 then.

Helping students and then going all round the world to ask veterans for a story for my D-Day website.

What wonderful memories I have of cyber hugs, cyber kisses and lovely e-mails coming in from worldwide thanking me for remembering them who fought and died to give me and many millions more like me a life.
Computing has opened many portals for me and I have made many cyber friends. There has been three re-unions through the war vet web I am happy to say.

I hope you enjoy your tour through my websites and I am overwhelmed at the amount of folk who have visited them.

God Bless
Maywalk.

brian.b

Maywalk

Hi Brian.
Here is that little tale I said I would tell you about a railway.

About three years ago I was contacted by a researcher who had read my evacuee story on the net about me being machine gunned in the train when being evacuated.
She asked me if I could go to Loughborough Central Station
http://www.dapsites.com/pictures/hires.htm
to be interviewed about a TV programme that was to be put on concerning steam trains.

The above was the station I alighted from as a 10 year old evacuee.

I agreed and asked if my granddaughter could accompany me because it was school holidays and I was looking after her.
She was at that time 12 years old.

A car was sent to pick us up and we were met outside the station by the researcher Nikki Tilley.
I must say that I wasn’t expecting cameras set up all over the place Shocked

I just thought it was to talk about the gruelling experience of being strafed with bullets by a Jerry when the train had just got outside London on the day we were being evacuated.

We went into the waiting room where the researcher was telling us a bit about what was going to happen.
I asked what it was all about and she said “Pete Waterman is sponsoring the programmes because he is absolutely besotted with steam trains and any stories to go with them.”

Me like a fool said “Who the heck is Pete Waterman?”

I was promptly dug in the ribs by my disgusted granddaughter saying
“Grandma he is the millionaire on Pop Idol!!!!!!!
I still had not got a clue but evidently it was someone who had impressed my 12 year old granddaughter.

I was then taken ouside on to the platform and sat on the seat with microphones and sound boxes hidden away from cameras as I was interviewed about that gruelling journey.

It was shown on TV about a year later and I missed it.

However Nikki Tilley contacted me and said I would get a free video of the programme.
Yes I did receive it. Laughing

brian.b

Maywalk

Thankyou Brian and I hope you enjoy my book that I have put on my 'maywalk' website.
That will tell you all about the bombing and evacuation plus some very comical instances that occured with my mother.

Cheers Maywalk.