After two years of happy blogging with Modblog.com, I find that Modblog has died on me and so today is a new beginning for me in the hope of finding a new circle of friends - or perhaps linking up with old friends who already use this server.
I miss very much the many younger friends I made among the Modblog bloggers and I hope to find friends of all ages visiting this new site. There is a vibrancy and freshness about the posts of younger people that give me much delight among the more solemn dissertations of the more mature.
The recent heavy rains and high winds have brought all the colourful leaves off the trees now but there are plenty of signs of Spring on its way. There are carpets of grape hyacinth and primrose leaves and, in the greenhouse, the broad beans have grown to two inches now. I don't like the early darkness that cuts short our afternoons in November but the Christmas lights are now appearing everywhere and its only three weeks to the shortest day, when the days start getting longer again. Hope springs eternal in the human breast!
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Olive in Church
About Me
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- Olive Morgan
- I am 88 but I am very active in the Methodist Church in Caversham and Reading. My unmarried daughter, Sheila, is head of the English Department in a University in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where we set up a charity, 'Edward Morgan Foundation', in memory of my late husband. My son, Tony, is a music lecturer in Nottingham University. He has his own choir (Ryton Chorale) and his own professional orchestra (English Pro Musica). He also has a world-wide business (Bass Bags) that sells all kinds of instrument cases. He and his wife, Caroline (who is also a music lecturer), have four adult 'children'. David helps with Bass Bags and has patented several of his inventions that have helped with quarrying, rail goods traffic and Heathrow's Terminal 5. Anna is married to Carl and they are house-parents at Old Swinford Hospital School in Stourbridge, with their two-year old daughter, Louisa and baby son, Toby James. After gaining his Master's Degree at UMIST, Richard is now doing teacher training at Cambridge University and Emily, after graduating at Durham University, works for the accountants KPMG in London.