THE SONGS OF A NIGHTINGAIL

       Why am I posting last week’s post this week?   Because my computer was down last week.   I was having it updated.   I’m sure you’ll laugh at this, but it was being updated from Windows 7 to Windows 11.   I hate change and was holding on as long as I could, but when I began to lose access to too many things because my browser was too old and I couldn’t update it because Windows 7 wouldn’t support a browser update, I had to bite the bullet, suck it up, and go for the update.   Luckily the fellow who did it managed to make the update look almost like my old program, bless him.   So now I’m back online.   Yay. I have to say well-made toffee is  yummy!  We used to order English Toffee from a company located in one of the towns where we lived until their business really took off and they became too expensive for our purse.  A shame for us, but good for them, I guess.  Then again, there’s always “Almond Roca”. J ...

  1920s:  My husband’s Aunt Phyllis Brasier, Grandmother Lillian Ross Pringle Brasier, and his mother, Virginia Rossmore Brasier  My husband’s mother, Virginia, in 1947. Virginia in 1987 My husband’s other grandmother, Daisy May Elizabeth Young, first row, second from right.  Not sure who everyone else is, but lots of short hair styles.  c. 1930s?   My mother, Lillian Adelle Whitney at age 18 in 1936 in a short bob of the day. Mom in 1987 at the age of 69 in a hairstyle she wore for many years.  Every once in a while she’d try changing it to something different, but it wasn’t long before she was back to her signature hairdo.  It simply suited her as nothing else did. At 98 Mom’s hair was getting a little too thin to be able to wear it as she had for so long, but we all liked this new look. In my teen years I wore my hair long – sometimes down, sometimes up in a ponytail or chignon, but when I reached my 20s and was working, I wanted to look m...