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My Diaries
By
William Mcfarlane White
(Horace) |
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It’s now
February 2008 and I am still here. When I
moved to flat no.11 I came across a heap of
old papers containing scribbles of stories,
events, memories, call them what you like,
that I had committed to paper with the idea
that the grandchildren would learn a little
of what life was like before, and just after
the war.
I passed
all this on to my son, Ian to read on the
understanding that if he did not rate them
then he was to destroy them. Ian decided to
clean them up, put them into some order,
correct my mistakes and type a cleaned up
version which he has titled ‘My Diaries’. He
is now pressurising me to write more, as
both Ian and his wife Ann feel the family
should read them and form their own
opinions. Ann by the way acted as the proof
reader.
I must
admit having read the new version I do
agree, the family should read them, but I am
not yet sure in my own mind when that time
should be. In times gone by most of the
following would have been passed on by word
of mouth at family gatherings. Videos, TV,
the Internet etc. has put an end to that
method of communication, so read on and I
hope enjoy the following.
[Webmaster's note: This account of life in
Maybole was written by Bill White for his
family but he has generously allowed us to
share it with our site visitors so that they
may enjoy this unique personal account of
Maybole as it was between the world wars.] |
