Recent content by Rujam

6th March 1940 When I was a few days old, Dad came home on leave, he saw the state of the place and told Mum to pack and we went to Halifax. A munitions train was bombed. We lived with a lovely couple, Doris and Fred, sadly both gone now. We stayed friends with them. My name on here is Rujam or...

My favourite show was Simon Townsend's Wonderworld. Although I was an adult, I was always fascinated by how things were made in workplaces, such as putting swirls on chocolates.

People are too quick to judge.

When I was about 3 (1943 or thereabouts) my Dad came home on leave and in his kitbag was a doll's pusher painted green, he said he had made it with pieces of timber that he found lying around. He said he left it unpainted, outside his tent and when he got up the next morning, it was green, he...

Right to the point.

What a beautiful story, I read that music helped with dementia and in this case it certainly did. My Mum in the UK didn't have dementia but was in a nursing home as my sister couldn't look after her any more. One day she decided to get out of bed and fell because of her arthritis and broke her...

When I lived in England, I couldn't eat Cadbury's Dairy Milk as it burnt my throat, yet the Aussie one is fine. Funnily enough, I don't like hot chocolate or chocolate ice cream.

I'm in Queensland.

They sound very tasty.

I was coming back to Australia after visiting my family for the first time in 15 years. Of course, I had a big spend up and had to pay a fee, I said I didn't have that amount and she halved the fee and said my daughter aged 6 could take one of the bags on board. A very nice South African man...

That ditty was terrific. Fancy being offended. Some people are so narrow-minded.

One Valentine's Day, my daughter's former boyfriend arranged to have some flowers delivered. No one knocked to say they had been delivered and I found them the next day as dead as the proverbial dodo. They had an early Valentine's tea as he had to work so he was very upset when he found out what...