Rhyming Memories - The Happy Times

Rhyming Memories is a series of poems, written by the author from the age of ten to the present day (now aged sixty). These poems depict snapshots of real life situations within a large family of nine children. Throughout the collection, windows are opened into the full spectrum of emotions including love, hatred. happiness, sadness, kindness and cruelty to name but a few. Readers may recognise and relate some such situations to their own life experiences.
This section of Rhyming Memories reflects the very busy, happy times of a large growing family. The father, Peter, works long hard hours as a steel fixer. He had to travel wherever the work was, his main aim being to earn a big enough wage to supply the needs of his nine children,
Mother, Kathy is left at the helm of the household to cook, clean, sew and drive her children forward. She predates Tony Blair in her philosophy of "Education, Education, Education". She feels strongly that all of her nine children, girls and boys, stay on at school, go on to college and university and fulfill their potentials by having careers not just jobs.