Have been writing again at last. Memories of hitchhiking adventures my friend Val and I got up to when we were penniless nursing students, mainly throughout UK.
The last hitchhiking we did was through Europe after we took our final exams. We travelled for three weeks in November culminating in Germany where we found jobs as housemaids. There I put on 20 pounds mainly because of boredom, huge slabs of Cadbury's chocolate purchased at the British Army stores and the German cakes 'mit sahne' absolutely delicious.
I returned home five months later, started work at Lincoln County hospital and dropped my weight in 2 weeks.
Details of our adventures are to be found in my memoir. When that will be finished who knows. I'm finding plenty to write about.
One of the hugest magpies I have ever seen has been hanging around the Norfolk Pine outside my window for the past 2 days. I think he might be looking for a nesting place. The maggies will start to get vicious in September when they are nesting. Having felt their sharp beaks on the back of my head a couple of times I'm scared of them. If this big geezer nests outside my window I'll have to wear protective head gear every time I walk out the front of the building. Going to collect mail could become hazardous.
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