Tag: dailyprompt
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My two careers
What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in? It actually did happen for me . After a fulltime career as a conveyancer (and whilst still working in London) I trained as a Reflexologist in 1997 so that when I retired in 2009 I had a second career as a fully qualified therapist…
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What food would you say is your specialty? I make a great vegetable pie, plus peach crumble (crisp) and not bad at vegetarian meatlessloaf
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At 4 years old
What major historical events do you remember? Watching Queen Elizabeth II Coronation on a small TV on my 4th birthday. My father bought it when he learnt that the whole ceremony was going to be shown on television. It was 2nd June 1953 and we lived in Hampshire at the time.
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MOVE COUNTRY
What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to? I would move to Texas at the drop of a hat, somehow I doubt they give greencards to pensioners. Something about that USA State really resonates. Their independence and can do attitude. Their kindness and friendliness, their support for the underdog. …
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BEING PROUD WITHOUT EGO
What are you most proud of in your life? I think this has to come in two parts. When my middle sister was diagnosed with metatised breast cancer and having already lost my eldest sister and her eldest daughter (my niece) to cancer, I felt helpless watching my only other sibling coming to the end…
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What’s something most people don’t know about you? One day I may have the courage to say
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A DIFFERENT SORT OF PROPOSITION
When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)? I was 17 and working as a secretary for the Contracts Manager of a building firm and also responsible for the liaison between the quantity surveyors department and my boss. My organisational skills and shorthand and typing were excellent and even…
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THE HARMONY THERAPY TRUST
If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to? After I lost both my sisters and a niece to cancer I set up a charity to provide the financial means to provide free complementary therapy for NHS patients with cancer or other long term conditions. It started out as…
Dawn Loves Buttercups 