Mary Berry and me

[lissie]

I was watching the Mary Berry story last night and thoroughly enjoyed it
In a way my life was similar in the beginning.
My Mum and Gran were good cooks and i watched them and was able to cook
quite well when 9 or 10 years old.
She caught Polio and was in hospital a long time.
I got TB and was laid up for a year
When she went to work she demonstrated how to use electric cookers.
I used to demonstrate the use of Aga Cookers
She managed to get someone to finance her to get to France to study cookery.
I wanted to go to catering college (and had passed all the necessary exams) but my
father said they could`nt afford it and i should get a job to help the family finances
There ended the similarities

lissie

[saundra]

aw lissie i really enjoyed the program
mary got quite upset at times didnt she
sorry your ambition didnt get you the carreer you wanted
in those days you did what your parents said im afraid
i really wanted to be a florist but i had to get a proper job
not an aprenticeship
how times change

[Kaz]

Yes youngsters nowadays have such choices, careers that were beyond the wildest dreams of my parents - who both left school at barely 15 to bring in money. University was beyind their wildest dreams and my sister and I grew up in a council house and yet my niece and nephew have both been to uni, niece has a blossoming career behind the scenes in TV, nephew wanting to be a lawyer, my daughter wanting to be an animal conservationist, travelling the world..................

They are so very lucky these days in that way