Bless Your Little Cotton Socks

In This Delightful Essay Collection That Reads Like AMemoir Diane Radford Draws The Reader Into The Enchanting World Of Her Parents ?Her Mother Margery, And Her Longsuffering Father SidneyMargery Had AWay With Words ?She Was Never Lost For ThemRecalling Her Mum?s Unique Turns Of Phrase, Diane Found Herself Beginning Her Own Sentences With ?as Margery Would Say,? Followed By One Of Her Mother?s Pithy CommentsShe Never Realized How Much Her Mother Differed From Other Mothers Until She Began To Quote Her, And Listeners Responded With Either AQuizzical Stare Or APeal Of LaughterDiane Mistakenly Presumed Everyone Had AMother Who Would Demonstrate The Charleston In The Middle Of Doing Dishes ?Suds Flying Across The Kitchen ?Or Recite Poetry On AWalk Along The ShoreDrRadford Compiled These ?margeryisms,? And Her Essays Recount The Adventures Of The Radford Family And The Circumstances In Which The Margeryisms Were Let Loose Upon The WorldAt Times Laughoutloudfunny, At Times Poignant, These Essays Transport The Reader To The Times And Places When Margery?s Saying Would Stop All Other Activity In ARoom the Coastal Town Of Troon, In Ayrshire, Scotland Forms The Backdrop For Many Of The MemoriesMrsRadford Had AWanderlust That Left Her Unsettled, Hence, She And Sid Moved Frequently ?Eight Homes In All In TroonThis Book In Divided Into Parts According To Where They Were Living At The TimeThe Reader Happily Joins The Radfords On Their Peripatetic Around Troon And Shares In Walks On The Beach, Feeding The Birds, Golf On The Narrowest Fairways Between Banks Of Yellow Broom, And The Animal Adventures Of The Radford Family.  These Reminiscences Of Her Childhood Revealed To Diane That She Was Altogether Blessed ?Not Just Her Cotton SocksThe Reader Will Be Too.
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