Hi Jean
Men on the moon didn't seem too big a deal to me in July 1969, I was only 10
years old and desperately missing my mum who had recently died ( aged 39
from lung cancer - she never smoked but my father did by the packet load), I
had been dumped into a convent boarding school (not wanted at
So sorry Nicky. Doesn't matter when you lose your parents, it's still hard.
I became an orphan in 1992 at the age of 49, but I still felt orphaned. My
mother had already died, and then my Father died. I was admitted to hospital
with they-didn't-know-what on Wednesday morning and my father's
