Letters to Myself 16 216 Clydesdale Road Antigonish Nova Scotia B2G 2K9 March 29th, 2012 Dearest J-B, I’ve written a book about myself, and about you. Or us, if that’s the right word to describe one identical person—gosh, what a funny idea. See what Mummy thinks. And don’t tell me you’ve stopped calling her […]
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where there are children there are families – and my own family features prominently in my writing
Letters to Myself 14
216 Clydesdale Road Antigonish Nova Scotia 12/12/13 Dear Johnny Boy, High time I wrote again! I was just reading a book about yummy things to eat when you are a boy, and it got me remembering all sorts of things I used to love. And I often cook meals that Mummy used to make […]
Letters to Myself 14
216 Clydesdale Road Antigonish Nova Scotia 12/12/13 Dear Johnny Boy, High time I wrote again! I was just reading a book about yummy things to eat when you are a boy, and it got me remembering all sorts of things I used to love. And I often cook meals that Mummy used to make (I […]
Letters to Myself 13
Letters to Myself 13 Ravenswood 47 Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare Somerset November 9th, 1952 Dear John, Thank you for your last letter. It’s nice that writing these letters helps you remember things you thought you had forgotten. Sometimes I forget things, too, but it’s mostly when I’m trying to conjugate a Greek or Latin verb. But […]
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Ravenswood 47 Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare Somerset July 20th, 1951 Dear John, Thank you for your last letter. It was great to hear about all the books in the Narnia Chronicles. Mummy took me to the book shop the day the second book, “Prince Caspian”, came out. I’m reading it every night in bed and […]
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216 Clydesdale Road Antigonish Nova Scotia March 23rd, 2017 My dear Johnny-Boy, It’s so wonderful to have another letter from you. And just a miracle we should be “talking” to each other across almost seventy years. Does this happen to anyone else? And the dates of our letters are getting closer together. Maybe it […]
Exeat
Extract from my memoir: News that will change my life’s course forever Exeat 1: Three weeks into my first term, I’m summoned to housemaster Mr Berridge’s study. I rise from my breakfast of congealed bacon and baked beans, fearful I’ve broken some obscure house rule and am to receive the ultimate punishment: six of the […]
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Ravenswood 47 Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare Somerset December 4, 1950 Dear John, Thank you for your last letter. It was lying behind the gas fire in my bedroom. It was a bit brown and crinkly. I think this was because Mummy let me have the fire on before I went to bed last night, […]
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Ravenswood, 47 Bristol Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. August 15, 1949. Dear John, I was reading “Biggles Delivers the Goods” in bed last night, and I turned over a page and there was another letter from you waiting for me. I don’t know how it got there but it was a very nice surprise. Jane and […]
Letter to Mummy
Letter to Mummy Blog 042518 I was inspired to write letters to myself by a letter I wrote to my mother when I turned 65 and retired from forty years of medical practice. Dorothy and I had already written quite a bit about art-based approaches to palliative care, and we learned it was common practice […]