Bomb Alley Kid No 45 all is fine.

                                Bomb Alley Kid No 45

                               New start.all is fine.


I have a phone call fom Tess the woman who was willing to pay forAngela to go to the USA,and she has been very good to us lending us her cottage down in Sumerset,while Angela was Ill, and now she is  saying that I must have a holliday and relax, she and her family are going to Florida,and she insists I should join them for the 3 weeks there,and bring Craig and Glenn,I really dont want to spend any more money, but Tess says she has booked it up,and I am included, all I have to do is pay my share to her, which she says I can do useing some of  the money I have left from the sale of Dads house,so get some  Dollers for spending over there, Unfurtunaly Glenn cant really take three weeks off from his new job so soon,so would rather stay at home with Irene,and they can look after the house while I am away.I really could do with out this added expence but seeing she has already included me in the holiday I dont have any excuse, anyway Craig will enjoy it,and it will do him good as well as me.so leaving Glenn to look after the house Craig and I fly down to Heathrow where Tesses doughters boy friend will pick us up and take us down to Chilham near Canterbury,where Tess lives then we can all travel up to Gatwick airport together next morning.to fly out to America where we will stay at Clearwater beach.in a very nice Hotel right on the beach,
        Having spent a nice time in Florida, and enjoyed seeing Disney World, kenney space centre,Bush gardens and such we leave to come home, I guess the trip has made me feel a little better,and less depressed than I was, ariveing back in Glasow and home Glenn has some news for me.he says he and Irene are going to get Married partly because Irene is Pregnant this is good news, but a bit of a suprise, but it will mean he will have a new life for himself in the future as a husband  with a wife and baby, Meanwhile Craig  has joined a diving  club, and has been offered a job in the dive shop which opperate the swimming club and teaches diving to members of the public,Craig has also got himself a paper round to earn more money for himself.Now I hear from my cousin back home in Canterbury that my Uncle Jack had been taken into hospital,with Lung Cancer,and has died, now Uncle jack and I got on well also he liked Angela and we would go out to dinner with him when we used to go home on holliday in the past, He wasnt a drinker nor did he smoke.now I hear that there is an inheritance of some money for me, Uncle Jack always had fast cars and his last car was a porche,so I ask if I could have this car as part of my inheritance,so this is agreed,so now I have a really nice sports car to drive,and craig and I go down to bring it back.glenn and Irene  have arranged to be married  and they have bought a house in Banknock.Irene has given Birth to,a lovley little girl who they are going to call Jemma Angela,Craig and one of the dive members have made an offer to buy the dive club and shop and it has been excepted, so things are looking up,over the years Glenn and Irene have also had two more children a little girl who they will call Gail. and a boy Called Drew.Craig and his Mate Ricky have  done very well in the diving world and now have five shops,I have retired  and handed my business over to Glenn who is also doing very well too.What a pity that Angela will never see any of this, but I a shure she would have been very proud of them all.as am I.
      So thats the end of my story.I have learned a lot during these years, and its how near one can become to ending it all,its a  razors edge, and you can go one way or the other  quite easly so I now understand more how some poor people just go  over the  wrong side of  the razors edge.                                               so                                       alls fine now for the a Bomb Alley Kid,

                                                                  The End
                                                        dated 9 February 2009
Re Written in 2011 / 20012         

bomb alley kid No 44 finnish it all

                                                   Bomb Alley Kid No 44
                       
                                                           finnish it all


Clearing my old home out and dads working tools in his shed is so depressing, but with the
help of my cousin Len we manage to complete it all Ok, I would like to keep some of Dads

tools,so have put these aside. My cousin len will take  most of the others as dad used to
let him use them if ever he wanted to do a job up on the farm so they will be usefull to
him,the rest we will give away,Having flown down I will take my Dads Mini back to Scotland

with some of the things I wish to keep,also I can give Glenn the Mini,I have put the house

on the market so hope someone will buy it in the near future,
   Back home in Scotland { I suppose its still a home of sorts } I will try to pick up

some of the bussiness that I have lost owing to all the trouble I have had, but really I

dont care much,when Dads house is sold I will have to pay off all the money on the my

house,and overdraft,I must say that my bank manager,{Mr Dow.} has been exceptionly

understanding during all this time,one would not get the same to-day in 1999 i"me afraid.I

think I owe arround £9000 + interest.eventualy I hear from the estate agent in Canterbury

that Dads house has been sold,so thats going to pay off the mortgage and the interest. and a

little left over,Now I hear from my estate agent that the buyer has had a structual survey

done and has found that dads house will need a lot of work done to it  so has decided  to

reduce his offer,I  have a  good friend Den Williams who Angela stayed with has now done

well in the building market,so I ask him if he would take a look at it for me incase it is 

just a way of getting the house a lot cheaper,so Den will take a look for me and let me

know,but when he tells me that it is needing lot done, and he thinks it will take at least

£5000.00 to correct as its the foundations that are sinking,so I would be better to except a

lower offer,so again another blow, during my loss of Angela, and now my Dad,now this

problem,I have been thinking that I cannot carry on any more,so have decided that life is

not worth living anymore,and so have decided to end it all in the near future,useing the

exhaust pipe from my car,which I have heard is nice way to go and easy as you just slip into

sleep.and thats it,I once found a man in his car who had done this when I was out walking

one day.and he looked quite peacfull,so this is my idia of how to go.with the money left

from the sale I will buy a removal van so that Glenn and Craig can start out on there own in

bussiness.Unfurtunatly removals now seem to have taken a bad turn, so this dosnt work, The

girl Irene who is Glenns girl friend her father is a manager of a bread company,and so has

told Glenn he can give him a job driving for the bakery.so Glenn takes on his offer.Craig

has also been offered a job with a Diving company,so will take this job.so now I have to

sell a removal van.so I will loose money .but now I really dont care any more. 

bomb Alley Kid No 43 Bomb Alley Kid No 43 What else ? its now a month since Angela passed away at the young age of 44 and I cant get used to not having her around, the house is so quiet, without her,and the house dosnt feel like a home anymore,when I come home from work, its so empty, and it used to be such a happy home with laughter and love.and the children,although I suppose they are not really children now because Craig will be 13 in January and Glenn is 17 in April,its nice that he has found a vry nice girl friend now, and they go out for rides on his motorcycle,but I know that he misses his Mum, because he often says that he wishes Mum could come out with him on his motorcycle for a ride as well, Crig seems to have excepted that she has gone, but I did explane to him the best I could, that she was like a box ofchoclates,that we had eaten,and enjoyed so the coffin was like the box which had the choclates in, which we are now going to throw away,so perhaps that helped him to except her not being around, I hope so. its now five months past, and My Dad phones me every week to see how I am manageing and if things are O K with the boys.and says he will come up in the summer,but at the moment he says he has a tummy ache, and thinks he may have eaten something which didnt agree with him but he will be O K so not to worry,I tell him to clear out the fridge and buy new food incase whatever it was is still there, so he says he will do this,and re-stock.The next time he phones he says he has called the doctor because he has bad pains in his side,and thinks it may be his appendicks,so nothing to worry about and will call me later, next day he phones to say that his pain is a lot worse so the doctor has decided to send him into Hospital for a scan.I say I will come down to help him when he get out,but he says not to bother as he will be O K.and will phone when he gets home.then I get a phone call fom Tony my Brotherin law to say that my dad is not at all well, and sujests that I should come down as soon as I can, so I go to the airport and fly down to heathrow that evening where Tony picks me up and takes me to the hospital where Dad is,there we meet a doctor who says that my dad has died just 30 minutes ago, and it was peritonitis and he should have come in sooner and they could have saved him so I never had a chance to say goodbye to my dad,just like Angela.I blame the local doctor for this as he should have known what it was.not left it to the last minute.I dont know if I can cope with this, its to much to take on and I still havnt got over Angela.now I have lost my Dad who was my best Pal, and friend,luckly one of my cousins Len says he will help me, as I will have to arrange to clear dads house, and put it on the market to sell it.also he will help with the funeral arragments for Dad.after his post mortem.I now think that God has forsaken me. so if thats it I am giving up the chuch. ive had enough. Bomb Alley Kid No 43 what else ?

                                                Bomb Alley Kid No 43
                              

                                                        What else ?


its now a month since Angela passed away at the young age of 44 and I cant get used to not having her around, the house is so quiet, without her,and the house dosnt feel like a home anymore,when I come home from work, its so empty, and it used to be such a happy home with laughter and love.and the children,although I suppose they are not really children now because Craig will be 13 in January and Glenn is 17 in April,its nice that he has found a vry nice girl friend now, and they go out for rides on his motorcycle,but I know that he misses his Mum, because he often says that he wishes Mum could come out with him on his motorcycle for a ride as well, Crig seems to have excepted  that she has gone, but I did  explane to him the best I could, that she was like a box ofchoclates,that we had eaten,and enjoyed so the coffin was like the box which had the choclates in, which we are now going to throw away,so perhaps that helped him to except her not being around, I hope so.
      its now five months past, and My Dad phones me every week to see how I am manageing and if things are O K with the boys.and says he will  come up in the summer,but at the moment he says he has a tummy ache, and thinks he may have eaten something which didnt agree with him but he will be O K so not to worry,I tell him to clear out the fridge and buy new food  incase whatever it was is still there, so he says he will do this,and re-stock.The next time he phones he says he has called the doctor because he has bad pains in his side,and thinks it may be his appendicks,so nothing to worry about and will call me later, next day he phones to say that his pain is a lot worse so the doctor has decided to send him into Hospital for a scan.I say I will come down to help him when he get out,but he says not to bother as he will be O K.and will phone when he gets home.then I get a phone call fom Tony my Brotherin law to say that my dad is not at all well, and sujests that I should come down as soon as I can, so I go to the airport and fly down to heathrow that evening where Tony picks me up and takes me to the hospital where Dad is,there we meet a doctor who says that my dad has died just 30 minutes ago, and it was peritonitis and he should have come in sooner and they could have saved him so I never had a chance to say goodbye to my dad,just like Angela.I blame the local doctor for this as he should have known what it was.not left it to the last minute.I dont know if I can cope with this, its to much to take on and I still havnt got over Angela.now I have lost my Dad who was my best Pal, and friend,luckly one of my cousins Len says he will help me, as I will have to arrange to clear dads house, and put it on the market to sell it.also he will help with the funeral arragments for Dad.after his post mortem.I now think that God has forsaken me. so if thats it I am giving up the chuch. ive had enough.    

Bomb Alley Kid No 42 after 1960,the last straw

Bomb Alley Kid No 42 after 1956 the last straw Angela is now very ill,and spends most of her time in Bed resting after her treatment at the hospital,I dont think any of the prays or laying of hands will ever save her now, she is so ill but I live in hope and still pray,then one afternoon I hear her call me,and when I go to the bedroom I find she has tried to get out of bed,and has fallen between the bed and the window, so now I must phone for a doctor as she is also in a lot of pain, when the doctor arrives she says that Angela must go to hospital so arranges for an ambulance to come and collect her.and take her to the Beatson Hoapsital in Glasgow in Hill street. We also had decided some months ago that we would have a porch added to the house, so this means there is deep trenches to overcome to be able to enter the front door,so this makes it a little difficut for them, as they are using a strether to carry Angela to the ambulance, they dont want to trip and slip in one of the trenches but they manage very well and get her into the ambulance,so I will follow in the car,at the Hospital I have to wait untill the porters get Angela into one of the wards and into bed then I am allowed to see her,Angela is not in so much pain now,but looks very ill,and she says to me that she knows that she is nearing the end,and that she will never come out of this hospital alive,I try to comfort her and tell her this is not so,and we will be home and all together again,but she says darling as a nurse I have seen this with other patients in my condition so I know what the end is.so please make shure that you look after Glenn and Craig when I have gone,but I know you will because you have been such a good husband and father,once I leave and come home I have to tell the boys what has happened to Mum,but not that she will die.I visit every afternoon and evening for the next four months,I phone Jessy and Tony,and my dad.to keep them informed as to how things are, my friends are all shocked at the news,and offer help if and when I need it.Jessy Comes up to help me and to visit Angela,with Tony,then one day when I vist her,she ask me to bring in Glenn and Craig to see her so she can see them for a last time.I know she is very very ill now, and is using oxogen to help her to breath,so I know she is near departing this world,also she is on lots of drugs to dull the pain that she has,as we leave I ask the Sister that I be told at any time of day or night if she gets any worse,so I can be with her at the end.then at 9 am the next morning I recieve a phone call to say that Angela passed away at 4am that morning, I cant understand why they didnt phone me durng the night to say, I can only assume that they didnt know untill the morning staff came on duty that she had died,so and why did the night shift not know,I am too upset to make a fuss,but why again does this seem to happen to us.I now must make arangements for the funeral My Dad has come up and also Tony And Jessy, for Angelas funeral on the 4th October 1979,and Dad has stayed to help me to build a shed. Had Angela lived we would have made our 25th wedding aniversary the next year, Jessy Tony have to leave me to go back home, leaving me and dad to finnish off the shed,then he has to drive home as well,but will come up again in the next couple of months. so now I have to be mother and dad to Glenn and Craig,try to get back to work and earnsome money.as the mortgage has built up to quite some amount,owing to all the days I have had to take off to look after Angela.

bomb alley kid No 41 after 56 not so goodnews

                                      Bomb Alley Kid
                                 No 41 after 1956 not so good

 Not being able to work and being in hospital,of course our saveings are dwindling fast, and the mortgage is getting behind with its payments,then to make things worse, one morning the Doctor asks me to come into his office after breakfast, when he tells me he has been intouch with Angelas Consultant,and her Surgeon, and the news is not good, in his opionion she will only have around one year tolive as the cancer is spreading fast,and has now spread to her other breast and she will have to have this one removed as well this is terrible news and  owing to me not being up to scratch,mylegs give out,and I callaps I really cant handle all this,but he says I will have to tell Angela in my own time, and we will both have to come to terms with it,this is thelast straw,nothing can be worse than this,and I wonder what we have done to deserve this fate,both of us have always been good religious people,I have followed the Bible teachings,but now I am having doubts,about God,and how do you tell someone who you love and adore that they only have a year to live,I always beleived that if you were a good christian God would be with you and help you and you should put your trust in him,I was a regular at chuch was in the chior,and everone who Angela worked with are praying for her to get well,this includes those who were of the jewish faith, Roman Cathlics, Chuch of England and chuch of Scotland,these were friends she worked with and neibours,so maybe things may tun out O K,Angela still comes to my hospital on Sundays to take me out for a ride  into the country and  get me into the fresh air,and away from the hospital  for awhile,its on one of these trips that we go to a place called the Queens View which overlooks Loch Lomond and the hills. around, and its here that I decide to tell Angela  the terrible news that I have been told.Angela takes all this in her stride,she is so strong,but says we will have to make the most of the time left and have some hollidays together with the boys,We have a friend  who has a cottage down in Summerset who on hearing this news says we must use this cottage for our hollidays together,Tess this woman is a friend of the family so we do take up her offer and spend some time  down there,You would never know Angela was so ill, because she is just like the Angela I married those years ago.so she says that the Doctors must be wrong,as she feels well.although she  still has to take all the  pills everyday.and does get tired quickly,and sleeps a lot.We  have a very nice church of scotland Minister who comes to see her at home and just talks to her, but not about her ilness just as a friend, he  then asks me if I would mind if he tried the laying of hands on Angela,as you can guess we will try anything that we think may do good,and so he does this for us on a day when Angela has to  retire to her bed. Tess our Friend says she will pay for Angela to go to America where she may get better treatment. Together Angela and I talk to her consultant about this but he says the treatment she is geting here  would be the same over there,so although its a great offer,it would only be a waste of money.so Angela will have her other breast removed,how do you prentend to a woman who has lost both breast that she is still beautifull, beleive me its not easy, to look at a woman who has lost her womenly looks,and prentend she is just as lovely,but I still love her so very much that it not that  bad. especialy if it will help to keep her with me.                                                                                                         

after 1945 No 27

                                                                 After 1945 No 27




With the wedding now over,it has been arranged that anyone who wishes can join with others at the hall which my Mum and Dad use for their  old tyme  dancing club.and there they will put on an evening of Modern and old tyme dancing for those who wish to come.there will also be some light refreshments available,meanwhile Angela and I will be taken by Tony and Jessy with my Dad and Mum,and  Angelas  Dad  down  to Dover in his car so that we can catch the train ferry.to France to begin our Honeymoon in Italy.Mum Dad and Jessy with Tony will then return to the  dancing  back in Canterbury,meanwhile Angela and I will be on the ferry which takes us to France. then by train  to Paris,where we will change  to the express  night train  to Marseilies, then again changeing there to another train which will take us along the beautifull Mediterraneon coast to San Remo in Italy.we arrive at the hotel  which is lovley,and it has very nice large  bedrooms and a balcony which overlooks the main road in San Remo.  after a nice shower,and unpacking our things,we go down to the restraunt where we  are intruduced to our waiter whose name is Bruno.the  evening meal is Spagetti, and we are not used to eating this, so Bruno shows us how to twist it around the fork  this causes a lot of laughs,as it keeps slipping off the fork, Bruno is a really great chap,  so we  really feel welcome  here, After eating  Angela  and I decide that we will take a walk along the road  to the sea front,also to get an idia  how the town is set out as it happens .the beach is only a stones throw way from the hotel,So next morning we decide to go to the beach to do some sunbathing and swimming,at beakfast we  hear another couple speaking English, and it turns out they to are on honeymoon too,so we team up  and decide we will all go together for a day on the beach and swim.the sea, the water is  lovley and warm and so very clear that you can see the bottom which dosnt look far down but when I try to swim to it  I have to give up because its still  a long way away.and deeper than you would imagion,Next day we  walk around the shops to see what they sell.then we meet the other two.and decide that maybe we can hire a car sometime,  and do a trip along the coast to  visit Monti Carlo,  Nice Canns, Etc. as I am the one who holds a full licience,I will have to be the driver, we will find a car hire company sometime next day, and hire a little car.and do this.so run,  next morning  we find a hire car company and ask if we can hire one for the day.but the owner says I will have to  aquire an Italian licience,but this will not be a problem  as he will  go with me to  the  licienceing  department,  he will translate  for me  from English to Italian.So now I have been given an Italian Licience  My name becomes Leonardo .Pankhurst. so now  he can hire us a little Fiat 900 so this is great, and  we are all O K for the run.next day.I  drive it back to the hotel and park it so we can get an early start  to-morrow morning.  now I have to rember to drive on the right not on the left

After 1945 No 26

        after 1945 No 26


Now ,we can make a we seem to have sorted out the basic problems,we can make a decision  as to our wedding,arrangments together we have chosen the 22nd of September 1956 and to have our honneymoon somewhere nice and warm,so we have  decided that a town called San Remo just inside the Italian boarder sounds lovley,so we  have  decided  to book this through Thomas Cook of course we will not tell anyone about it.and keep it a secret. of course now people know we are getting married they keep asking where we  are going for our honneymoon so we have to say we havnt decided as yet.when we eventualy are married  we will have to ask Tony or someone to take us to the ferry terminal at Dover  to catch the fery over to france,from there we will travel down through France  by train to Marseillie and change  to another train which runs along the French Riveria to San Remo.so all is arranged, now all we have to do is look forward to the wedding day,we have to go to the chuch twice a week in the evenings  and listen to the priest babble on mostley in latin, { which we dont understand  }  apparently this is usual in the cathlic church,its really to get us  to rember when we  will have to come in during the wedding service.and respond .at last  the  very important wedding day arrives and  all the recording equipment  has been set up for Billy to do his recording, then then  are told that we shall be married on the side alter.not the main alter,this is because Angela is Cathlic and I am Church of England  and  I have not taken up the Cathlic  faith.its funny but the Side Alter is more  or less the same as the Main Alter, cant see what the real reason is  for his decision. but we are not really botherd lets just get on with the  Marriage,   I must say that the Church is relly been decked out lovley  with lots of beatifull  flowers,The organ begins to play and Angelas  and her Dad  start the long walk up the isle,I take a quick look back and I must say Angela looks absolutly  beatifull  just like a filmstar.  at last  it comes to the part where we have to say I take the Angela  Mary Kenny,to be my Lawfull wedded wife an Angela replies  with I do. then its the same thing repeated and its my turn to say I will,Then Eric my Best man { who was good enough to stand in  in place of Alan who was called to go to the Suez }. at the last minute. gives me the ring which the priest  blesses and tell me to put it onto Angelas Finger,and then  pronounces us Man and Wife.I know now that I am a responsable for another persons welfare.