Wise words from the past

My sister just sent me this in a tweet - it was written by our maternal grandmother in 1939, in our mother's autograph book.  Mum was 13 at the time.  We never met our grandmother because she died of cancer two years later.

I've written it out below

We must expect to be crossed and disappointed every day; 

it is well, therefore, to be prepared for it.

If sorrow comes on anyone, sympathise.  If good - rejoice.

Treat your elders with respect and speak gently to the young.

Praise when you can, and blame only when you must.

With love from Mummy

23.7.39

This photo taken around that time - Grandmother Dorothy is centre right, our mother bottom left.

New Book Coming Soon! And #CoverReveal

 

Publishing around the beginning of September :)

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- Safe Zone -

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Safe Zone is a stand-alone novel of around 75k words, though it's associated with my SFV-1 series { Infected, Darkness and Reset }.  

The blurb so far...

Ten years after the SFV-1 rage virus devastated the world, the population of the UK is confined to one corner of the South East.  The newly recognised state of the UK Safe Zone is protected by a vast wall around the entire landmass, and by patrol boats around the coast.

Within, the creation of a new, functioning society is a work in progress, hindered by the fact that not everyone has arrived of their own free will, and some have been irrevocably damaged by the trials of the past decade.

Then there's the dark cloud on the horizon - news of a greater threat in Europe, that's heading their way...

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