Poetry on Occasion was written for the purpose of thanking God for blessings given, encouraging others through dark and difficult days, expressing Spiritual meditation gleaned from Scripture, the Christian Life, and the wonders of Gods creation. Taken from all phases of life, the poetry is inspirational, devotional, and easy to read and enjoy.
Poetry on Occasion was written for the purpose of thanking God for blessings given, encouraging others through dark and difficult days, expressing Spiritual meditation gleaned from Scripture, the Christian Life, and the wonders of Gods creation. Taken from all phases of life, the poetry is inspirational, devotional, and easy to read and enjoy.
Mavis" This magical journey through one child's view of life is both heart warming and thought provoking. How the war years and the society of the time caused families to be parted and hearts to be broken! Through orphanages and mental hospitals: war years and depravity this really is a tale which any reader can truly relate to!
As a girl in South Wales, Mavis Nicholson dreaded her friends finding out how closely she rubbed shoulders with Martha Jane, the grandmother whose large feather bed she had to share until she left home. Mavis's childhood memoir conjures up her vanished world at briton Ferry, the small house crammed with grandparents, parents, brother and sister. She describes the street games with her friends, outings with the flamboyant Matha Jane, visits from the vegtable cart and the cockle lady, her grandfather's drunken exploits, as well as the weekly highlights of the Kinema and Jerusalem Chapel. dates with the boys, and the gradual awakening of the world beyond the Ferry. . . . Above all she recalls the bittersweet memoirs of her possessive, baleful, increasingly jealous grandmother, who fed Pop, her husband, separate meals, surreptitiously sold her daughter's piano and regularly drove her son-in-law to seething exile in his garden shed - Martha Jane, the dominant influence in Mavis's young life. An enchanting account of the joys and agonies of girlhood. . . . . .
As a girl in the 1930s and 1940s, television interviewer Mavis Nicholson lived in a small terraced house crammed with grandparents, parents, a brother, and a sister. In this memoir, she describes the daily round, the weekly highlight of the Kinema, Jerusalem Chapel, the boys, and the gradual awakening to life beyond the Ferry. And, above all, the bittersweet memories of the possessive, baleful, increasingly bitter Martha Jane, her grandmother and the dominant figure in Mavis' young life.
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