Adult Blogs: THE BIG SWALLOW after this my mother went to hospital and there she died. I have no memory of my mother, nor for that matter my father at that time. When he was demobilised at the end of the war I still went on living with my grandparents. My father felt he was unable to care for me properly, and when eventually he married his new wife, whom I have always referred to as "Wicked stepmother," she did not want me.
So I was brought up by my grandparents in their strictly religious home until the time I married Mark.