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I have just found your website by accident, wrote MarjorieChappell. Just what I have been looking for for a long time.Since being able to use a computer I have been writing mymemoirs, hoping that one day I will be able to find a wayof getting them published, as a memorial to a mother ina million.
I was born in 1929 and it was a very difficult birth for my mother, resulting in me being brain-damaged with Cerebral Palsy. Mother was advised to put me in a mental institution as she was told that I would never walk, talk, see or hear, etc.
Well, I have managed to achieve all of this; cannot remember not being able to read or spell, but do recall never been able to write properly.
I went to a village school at Ferndown in Dorset for eight years. I used to get there and everywhere else with my friends on our tricycles, including Guides and all over the village and further.
I got on well at school with the help of teachers and all the boys and girls. Who will remember pushing me up the hill and carrying me to the trenches on a stretcher whenever there was an air raid during the war?
I try to attend the school reunions every year still.
After school I have always kept busy with mother's help and encouragement for over 60 years. We both fought all the odds and at 73 I am now able to live on my own with the minimum of daily help from others, and I am really enjoying being independent here in Milton Keynes.
Using my computer I am still studying and learning with Milton Keynes College and many, many more things with plenty of friends to help and encourage me.
My mother died almost four years ago at 91, after fighting so many people off. She struggled when there was no money except what she and father earned, and no one to help or advise her about anything. I want this to be a tribute to her.
Marjorie Chappell, Milton Keynes, 2002
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